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English
Etymology
From be- + wigged.
Adjective
bewigged (not comparable)
- Wearing a wig.
1853, The Gentleman's Magazine, page 375: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.
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 4: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.
1999, Alton Frye, Toward an International Criminal Court: A Council Policy Objective, page 46:Why should anyone imagine that bewigged judges in The Hague will succeed where cold steel has failed?
2022 December 18, Jon Henley, “‘You can’t begrudge Messi’: Parisians react as France lose World Cup final”, in The Guardian:It was standing room only in Le Napoléon and Le Mondial cafes, facing each other across the Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis in Paris’s 10th arrondissement – both rammed to the rafters inside with flag-waving, face-painted, red-white-and-blue bewigged fans.
- Perplexed, bewildered.