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Bag-wig. World English Historical Dictionary

Bag-wig. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1888, rev. 2024. Bag-wig (Also as two words.) A wig fashionable in the 18th century, the back-hair of which was enclosed in an ornamental bag.

1 1717.  Mrs. Centlivre, Bold Stroke, III. i. Now must Bag Wig and Bus’ness come in Play; A Thirty-Thousand-Pound Girl leads the Way.

2 1766.  Anstey, Bath Guide, x. 60. Bag-wig, and lac’d Ruffles, and black Solitaire.

3 1850.  W. Irving, Goldsm., xxv. 252. Walking the Strand in grand array with bag-wig and sword.

4   Hence Bag-wigged, a., wearing a bag-wig.

5 1775.  Sheridan, St. Patr. Day, II. iv. (1883), 236. Pig-tailed lawyers and bag-wigged attorneys.

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