Definition of "wig-maker" [wig-maker]

• One who makes wigs, or who keeps up an establishment for the making and selling of wigs. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Franklin's success prompted the rumor that no wig-maker could now find a perruque big enough for the swollen head of the transatlantic man who, when it came to it, appeared in court "coiffed in his own scattered white locks" and without a sword on his hip."
• "Cromford Mill, as it was named, was the work of two men: Richard Arkwright, a former barber-surgeon and wig-maker, and Jedediah Strutt, a Nottingham manufacturer of stockings and inventor of an ingenious 'frame' for the machine-knitting of ribbed stockings."
• "Gavroche replied with great simplicity: — “They are some brats that a wig-maker made me a present of.”"