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Definition of "bewigged" [bewigged]

  • Wearing a wig. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "bewigged" in a sentence
  • "Rising up against a soothingly nondescript gray background, the bewigged La Tour appears before us in a simple jacket of blue velvet and lace frill."
  • "The bewigged statue of that landowner, sitting in his Jacobean-style chair, gazes uninterrupted across this remote part of the valley."
  • "Lincoln was fond of "Father Neptune," as the president called Gideon Welles, the white-bearded, absurdly bewigged former newspaper editor."