Meanings
unwigged1
- not comparableNot wearing a wig; not covered by a wig.
Methwold is a walking antique, with mottled skin blotched over his hairless unwigged dome, making his baldness look like a map of the moon […]
1999, Salman Rushdie, chapter 9, in The Ground Beneath Her Feet, London: Jonathan Cape, page 2692 more examples
Appearance—like the first blow in boxing—is half the battle. […] I was once witness to a farmer’s abusing a pair of young, spruce, unwigged counsellors for spoiling his ground, in the afternoon, in whose presence he had—on a trial in the morning—trembled from head to foot.
1788, Charles Dibdin, The Musical Tour of Mr. Dibdin, Sheffield, Letter 22, pp. 82-83From the unwigged Mr. Justice Mallory, sipping the port of midday adjournment in his private room behind King’s Bench Seven, to melancholious Benjamin Bunce, perusing his “Law Times” at Groom’s coffee-shop in Fleet Street, the whole “legal world” was aware that “H. B. meant to make trouble.”
1922, Gilbert Frankau, “18, 3”, in The Love-Story of Aliette Brunton, Toronto: F.D. Goodchild
unwigged2
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of unwig
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