bewigged
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of bewigged
Example Sentences
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She never even got to clunk and thud her way through any farmhouses or laboratories like a bewigged bull in a china shop.
From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026
At the end of “Air,” director and co-star Ben Affleck, bafflingly bewigged as Nike CEO and co-founder Phil Knight, lies back on his office couch and utters a single word: “equity.”
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 5, 2023
Christ and his disciples, robed and bewigged, are here a rather creepy and forbidding bunch, the makeup so pronounced that it’s sometimes hard to tell the costumed sitter’s gender.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2021
The countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo sang Handel with a bewigged head behind him on his mantel; the tenor Stephen Costello contributed a Gounod aria alongside his wife, the Met violinist Yoon Kwon Costello.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2020
He saw the brother and sister running down the marble staircase ahead and aimed jinxes at them, but merely hit several bewigged witches in a portrait on the landing, who ran screeching into neighboring paintings.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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