bewigged

English

Etymology

From be- +‎ wigged.

Adjective

bewigged (not comparable)

  1. Wearing a wig.
    • 1853, The Gentleman's Magazine, page 375:
      No profanity was intented when zealous, close-cropped, and bare-headed ecclesiastics reminded their bewigged brethren that they were bound to imitate Christ in all things, and then asked them if the Saviour were likely to recognise a resemblance to himself in a priest under a wig.
    • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 4:
      The walls were adorned with oil paintings, portraits of stiff ladies with powdered coiffures, of bewigged Oldenborgians and other redoubtable persons in mail and armour or red coats.
    • 1999, Alton Frye, Toward an International Criminal Court: A Council Policy Objective, page 46:
      Why should anyone imagine that bewigged judges in The Hague will succeed where cold steel has failed?
    • 2022 December 18, Jon Henley, “‘You can’t begrudge Messi’: Parisians react as France lose World Cup final”, in The Guardian‎:
      It was standing room only in Le Napoléon and Le Mondial cafes, facing each other across the Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis in Paris’s 10th arrondissement – both rammed to the rafters inside with flag-waving, face-painted, red-white-and-blue bewigged fans.
  2. Perplexed, bewildered.
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