Definition of Bagwigs

1. bagwig [n] - See also: bagwig

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bagwigs

bagsful
bagsie
bagsied
bagsing
bagsy
bagsying
baguet
baguets
baguette
baguettes
baguio
baguios
bagwash
bagwashes
bagwig
bagwigs (current term)
bagworm
bagworms
bah
bahada
bahadas
bahadur
bahadurs
bahaha
bahamas
bahar
bahars
bahia coquilla

Literary usage of Bagwigs

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"The Irish noblemen are very likely going through the same delightful routine of duty before their real sovereign—in real tights and bagwigs, as it were, ..."

2. Two Centuries of Costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX by Alice Morse Earle (1903)
"A hundred years after Pepys, in Nugent's Trai-f/s, 1766, some fair dames are described as wearing bagwigs. I cannot think that wigs were common wear ..."

3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1853)
"20 coats and black trousers—why not powder and bagwigs? It is written in the Morning Post that seven delicate ladies, in the first row of boxes, ..."

4. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (1903)
"The very Peerage is fected with the leaven. Our Peers have, in too many cases, id aside their frogs, laces, bagwigs; and go about in English ..."

5. The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1896)
"Our Peers have, in too many cases, laid aside their frogs, laces, bagwigs ; and go about in English costume, or ride rising in their stirrups ..."

6. Modern Eloquence by Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh (1900)
"... we may hit them many a sly rap over the shoulders of their ancestors who wore turbans, or helmets, or bagwigs, and lived long ago in other countries. ..."

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