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- noun Plural form of
wiggery .
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Examples
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Her eyes were as bright, and her little wizen face was as sharp as ever; but the wizen face and the bright eyes were not so much amiss as seen together with the old dark brown silk dress which she now wore, as they had been with the wiggeries and the evening finery.
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She was very thin, too, and very small, and putting aside her wiggeries, you would think her to be all eyes.
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She was a ghastly thing to look at, as well from the quantity as from the nature of the wiggeries she wore.
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Her eyes were as bright, and her little wizen face was as sharp, as ever; but the wizen face and the bright eyes were not so much amiss as seen together with the old dark brown silk dress which she now wore, as they had been with the wiggeries and the evening finery.
The Last Chronicle of Barset Anthony Trollope 1848
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She was very thin, too, and very small, and putting aside her wiggeries, you would think her to be all eyes.
The Last Chronicle of Barset Anthony Trollope 1848
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Mrs Van Siever in her present habiliments was not a thing so terrible to look at as she had been in her wiggeries at Mrs Dobbs Broughton's dinner-table.
The Last Chronicle of Barset Anthony Trollope 1848
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We had considered suspending our practice of providing annual guidance as many companies have, but we do feel that it is important to express our current view in spite of and considering the wiggeries of the economic environment that we are still in.
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Mrs Van Siever in her present habiliments was not a thing so terrible to look at as she had been in her wiggeries at Mrs Dobbs Broughton’s dinner-table.
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a ghastly thing to look at, as well from the quantity as from the nature of the wiggeries which she wore.
The Last Chronicle of Barset Anthony Trollope 1848
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