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bewigged

bewigged adjective: wearing a wig.

Adjective

bewigged (not comparable)

  1. Wearing a wig.
    • 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.1853, The Gentleman's Magazine, page 375
    • 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.1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 4
  2. Perplexed, bewildered.

Origin of bewigged

From be- + wigged.

Questions about bewigged

What does bewigged mean?
Bewigged means wearing a wig.
What part of speech is bewigged?
Bewigged is an adjective.

Words near bewigged in the dictionary

  1. bewife
  2. bewifed
  3. bewifes
  4. bewifing
  5. bewig
  6. bewigged
  7. bewigging
  8. bewigs
  9. bewilder
  10. bewildered
  11. bewilderedly

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