full-bottomed
Britishadjective
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He must remember to wear his girdle, scarf, tippet, beaver hat, full-bottomed wig, ermine-trimmed hood & mantle on State occasions or when attending St. Paul's Cathedral.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Britain's courts the awful majesty of the law is made visible by the spaniel-eared, full-bottomed wigs of the robed judges, and by the pigtailed wigs and billowing gowns of learned counsel.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lord Kilmuir, the Lord High Chancellor, draped amid flowing robes, impassive under a full-bottomed wig, came last.
From Time Magazine Archive
Six Lord Justices and their Lord President, gorgeous in full-bottomed wigs.
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At the further end of the library we have the Church, represented by an Archbishop and five Bishops; also a Judge, in a full-bottomed wig, who has evidently got in by mistake.
From Punch, or, the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 8, 1890. by Various
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