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bewig, v.|bɪˈwɪg|
[f. be- 6, 7 + wig.]
To furnish or cover with a wig. Hence beˈwigged ppl. a. a. Wearing a wig. b. Under the influence of bureaucracy or ‘red-tape.’ (In Germany Zopf = cue, pigtail, is the symbol of official pedantry or red-tape.)
1774Westm. Mag. II. 600 Suppose me now be-wigg'd and seated here. 1851‘L. Mariotti’ Italy vii. 416 A paltry Baden, a bewigged Prussia. 1866Lond. Rev. 9 June 640/1 It drives him to bewig his bald head. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. i. i. 3 An old bewigged woman, with eyeglasses pinching her nose. |