[? from the personal surname Caxon.] A kind of wig, now obsolete.
1756. Cawthorn, Poems (1771), 77. Though that trim artist, barber Jackson, Spent a whole hour about your caxon.
1762. Gentl. Mag., 233. I’ve let my hair grow, and have thrown off my caxon.
1791. Huddesford, Salmagundi, 111. The worthies at Rag Fair old caxons who barter.
1828. Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. III. (1863), 34. The caxon worn by the then Archbishop of Canterbury.
1834. Southey, Doctor, cxii. (1862), 270. A wig which, with all proper respect,… I cannot but honestly denominate a caxon.
