Also tye-wig. [Cf. TIE- 3.] A wig having the hair gathered together behind and tied with a knot of ribbon.
1713. Gay, Guard., No. 149, ¶ 17. The smart tye-wig with the black ribbon.
1816. Scott, Antiq., iii. In tie-wigs and laced coats.
1852. Thackeray, Esmond, III. v. The gentleman-usher’s horror when the Prince of Savoy was introduced to her Majesty in a tie-wig, no man out of a full-bottomed periwig ever having kissed the Royal hand before.
attrib. 1887. Browning, Parleyings, B. de Mandeville, iv. Addison’s tye-wig preachment.
Hence Tie-wigged a., wearing a tie-wig.
1763. Brit. Mag., IV. 605. The powder’d tye-wigged sons of soot Trip to the shovel with a shoeless foot.
