What does unwigged mean?
Unwigged means Not wearing a wig; not covered by a wig..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Not wearing a wig; not covered by a wig..
Appearance—like the first blow in boxing—is half the battle. […] I was once witness to a farmer’s abusing a pair of young, spruce, unwigged counsellors for spoiling his ground, in the afternoon, in whose presence he had—on a trial in the morning—trembled from head to foot.
From the unwigged Mr. Justice Mallory, sipping the port of midday adjournment in his private room behind King’s Bench Seven, to melancholious Benjamin Bunce, perusing his “Law Times” at Groom’s coffee-shop in Fleet Street, the whole “legal world” was aware that “H. B. meant to make trouble.”
Methwold is a walking antique, with mottled skin blotched over his hairless unwigged dome, making his baldness look like a map of the moon […]
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Unwigged means Not wearing a wig; not covered by a wig..
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Appearance—like the first blow in boxing—is half the battle. […] I was once witness to a farmer’s abusing a pair of young, spruce, unwigged counsellors for spoiling his ground, in the afternoon, in whose presence he had—on a trial in the morning—trembled from head to foot.
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