adjective
- wearing a wig
Usage: often used to describe judges, lawyers, or historical figures
Examples
- The bewigged judge entered the courtroom with great ceremony.
- Portraits of bewigged gentlemen lined the walls of the old mansion.
- The actor appeared bewigged and powdered for his role as a colonial aristocrat.
- Bewigged barristers still practice in some British courts today.
- The museum displayed mannequins of bewigged 18th-century nobles.
- She laughed at the sight of her bewigged grandfather in the old photograph.