wigless
- a word derived from wig.
Example Sentences
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Diderot has such an engaging aura in his writing that an idealized Fragonard portrait of a reader at work—open collar, wigless, bright-eyed and wry—was, until 2012, falsely identified as Diderot.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 25, 2019
He was wigless now but still in his stage makeup.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
To-day, more secretly yet more surely, does the maker of transformations live and prosper, but in the days when to be wigless was to be undressed the perruquier was a very great person.
From English Costume by Calthrop, Dion Clayton
Even as it was, I had a wait of several minutes in the drawing-room before the Colonel entered, wigless, unshaven, and loosely attired in nightgown and slippers.
From A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois by Bennet, Robert Ames
I arose with a shining pate, wigless; she in disdain and wrath, half-buried in alien hair.
From The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Poe, Edgar Allan
