Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A variant of
tie-wig .
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Examples
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Now the chapter I was obliged to tear out, was the description of this cavalcade, in which Corporal Trim and Obadiah, upon two coach-horses a-breast, led the way as slow as a patrole — whilst my uncle Toby, in his laced regimentals and tye-wig, kept his rank with my father, in deep roads and dissertations alternately upon the advantage of learning and arms, as each could get the start. —
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Never mind the bend-sinister, said my uncle Toby, putting on his tye-wig. —
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Let my old tye-wig, quoth my uncle Toby, and my laced regimentals, be hung to the fire all night, Trim.
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Now the chapter I was obliged to tear out, was the description of this cavalcade, in which Corporal Trim and Obadiah, upon two coach-horses a - breast, led the way as slow as a patrole — whilst my uncle Toby, in his laced regimentals and tye-wig, kept his rank with my father, in deep roads and dissertations alternately upon the advantage of learning and arms, as each could get the start. —
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Let my old tye-wig, quoth my uncle Toby, and my laced regimentals, be hung to the fire all night, Trim.
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Never mind the bend-sinister, said my uncle Toby, putting on his tye-wig. —
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Mr. Radcliffe was dressed in mourning, and had, according to his own subsequent account to a fellow prisoner in Newgate, a "brown tye-wig."
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. Mrs. Thomson
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-- He took Miss Powis on his knee; -- call'd her a hundred times his dear, dear daughter; -- and I could not forbear laughing, when he told her he had not wore a tye-wig before these twenty years.
Barford Abbey Susannah Minific Gunning
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All gray he was, and the sun glistened on his gray tye-wig as he waited.
Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes James Branch Cabell 1918
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The remark of Mandeville, who, when he had passed an evening in his company, declared that he was a parson in a tye-wig, can detract little from his character; he was always reserved to strangers, and was not incited to uncommon freedom by a character like that of Mandeville.
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