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lawyer's wig

noun

  1. the shaggy ink-cap See ink-cap
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Television video showed a bare-chested man with a lawyer’s wig on his head standing at a window.

With a mind to the comfort of his country's barristers, Premier Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana called for an end to a solemn heritage of British common law: the traditional curled lawyer's wig.

Lank Sir John Simon, his lawyer's wig slightly askew with the vehemence of his summation, faced ten men and two women in the jury box at Old Bailey last week.

In the land I come from we are more inclined to settle a case with a good stout blackthorn than with the aid of a lawyer's wig.

For a minute George III. hesitated; whereupon Eldon supported his prayer by observing, with the fervor of an old-fashioned Tory, that the lawyer's wig was a detestable innovation—unknown in the days of James I. and Charles the Martyr, the judges of which two monarchs would have rejected as an insult any proposal that they should assume a head-dress fit only for madmen at masquerades or mummers at country wakes.

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