Lexicographical Neighbors of Bagwigs
Literary usage of Bagwigs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"The Irish noblemen are very likely going through the same delightful routine of
duty before their real sovereign—in real tights and bagwigs, as it were, ..."
2. Two Centuries of Costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX by Alice Morse Earle (1903)
"A hundred years after Pepys, in Nugent's Trai-f/s, 1766, some fair dames are
described as wearing bagwigs. I cannot think that wigs were common wear ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1853)
"20 coats and black trousers—why not powder and bagwigs? It is written in the
Morning Post that seven delicate ladies, in the first row of boxes, ..."
4. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (1903)
"The very Peerage is fected with the leaven. Our Peers have, in too many cases,
id aside their frogs, laces, bagwigs; and go about in English ..."
5. The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1896)
"Our Peers have, in too many cases, laid aside their frogs, laces, bagwigs ; and
go about in English costume, or ride rising in their stirrups ..."
6. Modern Eloquence by Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh (1900)
"... we may hit them many a sly rap over the shoulders of their ancestors who wore
turbans, or helmets, or bagwigs, and lived long ago in other countries. ..."
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