Wig Wig A wig is a head covering made from human hair, animal hair, or synthetic fiber. The word wig is short for periwig., which makes its earliest known appearance in the English language in William Shakespeare's "The Two Gentlemen of Verona". Julia, disguised as the boy Sebastian, says "I'll get me such a coloured periwig." [II,2.81] Some people wear wigs to disguise baldness; a wig may be used as a less intrusive and less expensive alternative to medical therapies for restoring hair or for a religious reason. In Egyptian society men and women commonly had clean shaven or close cropped
Man (word) if only the Germanic form was known, but the attested Indo-Iranian "manu" virtually excludes the possibility. Moreover, *' is known to have survived in Old English not as ' but as "", the ancestor of the second element of the Modern English word "bridegroom". In the late twentieth century, the generic meaning of "man" declined (but is also continued in compounds "mankind", "everyman", "no-man", etc.). The same thing has happened to the Latin word ': in most of the Romance languages, ', ', ', ' have come to refer mainly to males, with a residual generic meaning. The exception is