unwiggings

Noun

unwigging (plural unwiggings)

1. The act of removing a wig from someone.
   • The frontispiece by Hogarth seems to represent the unwigging and unfrocking of the Author and the tearing of his paper in the presence of the Vice-Chancellor, proctor, and other members of the University […]1874, Christopher Wordsworth, editor, Social Life at the English Universities in the Eighteenth Century, Cambridge: Deighton, Bell & Co., p. 612, note to p. 43
2. The act of dismissing someone from a position marked by the wearing of a wig, such as a barrister or judge.
   • Perhaps I should explain the obscure legal process that has to be gone through in the unfrocking, or should I say unwigging, of a barrister.1992, John Mortimer, “Rumpole on Trial”, in Rumpole on Trial, Penguin, page 225