v. [f. BE- 6, 7 + WIG.] To furnish or cover with a wig. Hence Bewigged ppl. a. a. Wearing a wig. b. Under the influence of bureaucracy or ‘red-tape.’ (In Germany Zopf = cue, pigtail, is the symbol of official pedantry or red-tape.)
1774. Westm. Mag., II. 600. Suppose me now be-wigg’d and seated here.
1851. Mariotti, Italy, vii. 416. A paltry Baden, a bewigged Prussia.
1866. Lond. Rev., 9 June, 640/1. It drives him to bewig his bald head.
1876. Geo. Eliot, Dan. Der., I. i. 3. An old bewigged woman, with eyeglasses pinching her nose.
