bewigged
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8.4
- adjective
- /bɪˈwɪɡd/
- Archaic
- "So you're in time travel," said the bewigged one.
Examples
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Her infamous, zombified, bewigged performance of "Gimme More" at the 2007 Video Music Awards, an event that forever altered Britney's reputation (and one, some would argue, that she never really recovered from).
Blog text (20) -
Bewigged and bejeweled.
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On the royal float, the bewigged king was drinking a toast.
Fiction book (2001) -
My father's six brothers stand in the back, their bewigged wives arranged in front of them.
Fiction book (1991) -
Assuming that the wind had taken it, other bewigged guests grabbed at their own adornments, anchoring them to their noggins.
Fiction book (1990) -
In another act of open voyeurism, a bewigged man at the right ogles two women through the magnifying lens of a lorgnette.
Academic text (2007) -
Against the backdrop of an impossibly rococo arcadia, an assortment of beribboned, bewigged, pomaded, and pantalooned twerps and nincompoops spoon and sport.
Blog text (32) -
On the royal float, the bewigged king was drinking a toast.
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The row of dancers swirled in colored silks, glistening jewelry, and high bewigged heads.
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Mr. Justice Hedge leaned back in his judicial chair and glowered down at the bewigged barrister.
Synonyms
2
8.1
Wearing false hair on the head
1
9.9
Someone who wears a large old-style wig like men wore in the 1600s and 1700s
How Old-Fashioned
- Archaic
- Archaic
1
8.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word bewigged comes from the small word be- at the start, which means 'covered with' or 'having', plus wig, so it literally means 'having a wig'. That's why a bewigged person is wearing a wig, often as part of a costume or official dress.