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bag-wig|ˈbægˈwɪg|
(Also as two words.)
A wig fashionable in the 18th century, the back-hair of which was enclosed in an ornamental bag.
1717S. Centlivre Bold Stroke iii. i, Now must Bag Wig and Bus'ness come in Play; A Thirty-Thousand-Pound Girl leads the Way. 1766Anstey Bath Guide x. 60 Bag-wig, and lac'd Ruffles, and black Solitaire. 1850W. Irving Goldsm. xxv. 252 Walking the Strand in grand array with bag-wig and sword.
Hence bag-wigged, a., wearing a bag-wig.
1775Sheridan St. Patr. Day ii. iv. (1883) 236 Pig-tailed lawyers and bag-wigged attorneys. |