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- noun A person making
wigs .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who makes and sells wigs
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Examples
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That the film's wigmaker should be summarily shot?
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Hemingway's Garden of Eden Marshall Fine 2010
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I actually sold my hair once, to a wigmaker in the Netherlands.
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That the film's wigmaker should be summarily shot?
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Hemingway's Garden of Eden Marshall Fine 2010
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The husband sold his beloved pocket watch to buy a jeweled comb, only to learn that his wife has cut her luxurious hair and sold it to a wigmaker in order to buy him a watch chain.
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These are tasty sweeteners, but the dissidents at Steel Partners offer something potentially more tempting -- more rigor and discipline at a rather lackluster wigmaker.
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No… I know… this is the most exciting thing to happen to the Theater World since Carol Channing hired a new wigmaker.
Mask Musical Promises to Be Sensitive, Moving, and Severely Deformed | Best Week Ever 2008
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The wigmaker made our kids' hair stand on end by asking their ages, and then saying "Oh, that must mean that in your household you do ..." and then going on to detail the customary chores in colonial Williamsburg for a child that age.
Great Agrarian Vacations Herrick Kimball 2005
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Many of the things I first learned about pre-modern agrarian culture came from wandering around the town and finding out about the lives of the wigmaker, the printer, the pharmacist, the brickmakers, and so on.
Great Agrarian Vacations Herrick Kimball 2005
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Nathan Englander envisions a group of Polish Jews herded toward a train bound for Auschwitz and in a deft imaginative twist turns them into acrobats tumbling out of harm's way; he takes an elderly wigmaker and makes her, for a single moment, beautiful.
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In 1777, he married Anne Moulet, the daughter of a master wigmaker at the Court of Aides, by whom he had five children, of which the oldest was Jean-Auguste-Dominique.
Scheherazade Goes West Fatema Mernissi 2001
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