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Meanings of flaxen wig in English

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Usage of flaxen wig in English
1
His gray hair looks much better than His Majesty's flaxen wig-bad taste.
The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2
2
Suddenly he parted the flaxen wig and examined a place on the head.
The Portion of Labor
3
He turned round in his chair, and met the dowager's flaxen wig and crimson face.
Elster's Folly: A Novel
4
A middle sized man, with pompous features, and a pompous walk, and a flaxen wig.
East Lynne
5
Nor is the flaxen wig with safety worn:
At the Sign of the Barber's Pole: Studies In Hirsute History
6
An imposing, pompous man, stern and grim, in a new flaxen wig, and a white rose in his buttonhole.
East Lynne
7
In the morning a velvet cap; by dinner, a flaxen wig; his features always expressive of benignity and placid cheerfulness.
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 / Letters 1821-184...
8
The justice was heated enough, and had pushed his flaxen wig nearly hind-part before, in the warmth of his argument.
East Lynne
9
Did you notice that in the momentary struggle his flaxen wig got disturbed, and beneath it I saw a dark curl.
The Parisians — Volume 11
10
But ere Mrs. Hare's meek sigh of disappointment was over, the door re-opened, and the flaxen wig was thrust in again.
East Lynne
11
The justice opened the door again, and thrusting forth his flaxen wig, his aquiline nose, and his amazed eyes, gazed at Barbara.
East Lynne
12
After a pause, he added, again settling the crisp flaxen wig at the ears, "It is very difficult to begin."
A Tale of Two Cities
13
The Abbe Dubois was a little, pitiful, wizened, herring-gutted man, in a flaxen wig, with a weazel's face, brightened by some intellect.
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 1...
14
She wore a light flaxen wig, which was never very artfully adjusted, but this mattered little, as she made no secret of it.
Roderick Hudson
15
"What!" cried the gentleman in the flaxen wig, "what!
Devereux — Complete
16
"Zounds, Cleland, you got the worst of it there," cried a gentleman in a flaxen wig.
Devereux — Complete
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