Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Without a wig; wearing no wig.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having or wearing no wig.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Without a wig.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective not wearing a wig

Etymologies

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wig +‎ -less

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Examples

  • Tom, wigless and hatless, arrived after breakfast to say that he has hired men to remove all the costumes and paintings in the theatre to a safer location and to stand by with water buckets in case the fire reaches Bridges Street.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • Tom, wigless and hatless, arrived after breakfast to say that he has hired men to remove all the costumes and paintings in the theatre to a safer location and to stand by with water buckets in case the fire reaches Bridges Street.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • Alma stands barefoot and wigless in the upstairs bedroom with a flashlight.

    Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010

  • Alma stands barefoot and wigless in the upstairs bedroom with a flashlight.

    Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010

  • I arose with a shining pate, wigless, she in disdain and wrath, half buried in alien hair.

    Archive 2008-12-01 2008

  • She was hunched over, wigless, without makeup, looking like a frail old woman.

    A Happy Marriage Rafael Yglesias 2009

  • She was hunched over, wigless, without makeup, looking like a frail old woman.

    A Happy Marriage Rafael Yglesias 2009

  • She was hunched over, wigless, without makeup, looking like a frail old woman.

    A Happy Marriage Rafael Yglesias 2009

  • She was hunched over, wigless, without makeup, looking like a frail old woman.

    A Happy Marriage Rafael Yglesias 2009

  • Copley's portrait of him is unlike many of his others: Revere is very simply dressed, he is wigless, and he holds a teapot that alludes not only to his craft, but his political viewpoint, becoming an emblem of how increased taxes were strangling the economy in the colonies.

    History of American Women Maggiemac 2009

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