Definitions
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- adjective Wearing a wig.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Wearing a wig.
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- adjective Wearing a
wig .
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Examples
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The bewigged statue of that landowner, sitting in his Jacobean-style chair, gazes uninterrupted across this remote part of the valley.
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We follow two bickering brothers from their first encounter with the school's bewigged Master who does not spare the rod through their struggles with memorization and dripping quill pens.
Rescuing a Classic Meghan Cox Gurdon 2011
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Rising up against a soothingly nondescript gray background, the bewigged La Tour appears before us in a simple jacket of blue velvet and lace frill.
A Tour de Force, Honest and Engaging James Gardner 2011
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Lincoln was fond of "Father Neptune," as the president called Gideon Welles, the white-bearded, absurdly bewigged former newspaper editor.
Civil War Diaries, Blue and Gray Harold Holzer 2011
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One of the show's inspired moments, for instance, conjures up a "Wizard of Oz"/"Star Wars" mash-up, with Dorothy (a bewigged and befrocked Martin) yellow-brick-roading along with Yoda (a puppet), instead of Toto, in her basket.
Celia Wren reviews 'Completely Hollywood (Abridged)' at Kennedy Center 2010
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The bewigged Warhol predicted he would not survive the hospital when he went in for a routine operation, and he was right.
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She is now in rehearsal for a revival of David Hirson's 1991 play La Bête, in which she plays a princess in 17th-century France, fully bodiced and bewigged.
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Nobody among the press seems to know exactly why we have kept such a bewigged tradition, or "where they disappear to" afterwards.
Mayhill Fowler: A Citizen Journalist Covers an Obama State Dinner [PHOTOS] 2010
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The clowns are neither the bewigged bozos who gave you nightmares as a child nor the bemasked Italian Harlequins that gave you nightmares as a college student, but instead red-nosed, wordless caricatures that embody certain Metro tropes like Guy From Baltimore Who Hits on All the Ladies (Jon Reynolds) or Uptight Intern With a Laugh Like a Fire Alarm (Micael Bogar) or Tourist Who Apparently Has Never Before Seen a Map (Lenore Sack).
Theater review of 'Separated at Birth' at Mead Theatre Lab 2010
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Nobody among the press seems to know exactly why we have kept such a bewigged tradition, or "where they disappear to" afterwards.
Mayhill Fowler: A Citizen Journalist Covers an Obama State Dinner [PHOTOS] 2010
chained_bear commented on the word bewigged
"Widespread Powder Shortage Confounds Nation's Bewigged," seen here.
October 7, 2008