lawyer's wig
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Lank Sir John Simon, his lawyer's wig slightly askew with the vehemence of his summation, faced ten men and two women in the jury box at Old Bailey last week.
From Time Magazine Archive
With a mind to the comfort of his country's barristers, Premier Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana called for an end to a solemn heritage of British common law: the traditional curled lawyer's wig.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Don’t you have your hair put in papers?” said Matilda, whose own curls sat stiffly round her head as regularly as the rolls of a lawyer’s wig.
From Six to Sixteen A Story for Girls by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty
This lawyer's wig is the only one which has not been changed or abandoned.
From Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) by Earle, Alice Morse
It will keek out frae aneath the parson's gown, the lawyer's wig, and the Cameronian's blue bannet; but still there is a gouden rule whereby to detect it, an' that never, never fails.'
From The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by Hogg, James
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