Bewigged vs Bewinged - What's the difference?
bewigged | bewinged |
Wearing a wig.
*1853 -- The Gentleman's Magazine (page 375) [http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC26375199&id=T8DC-F2J5eYC&pg=PA375&lpg=PA375&dq=bewigged&as_brr=1]
*1999 -- Toward an International Criminal Court: A Council Policy Objective by Alton Frye (page 46) [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN087609261X&id=3OOcGDmwC0IC&pg=PA46&lpg=PA46&dq=bewigged&as_brr=1&sig=agnuKpKpOHeCaypIcigvO-L62sM]
having wings
* {{quote-book, year=1850, author=Edgar Allan Poe, title=Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works, chapter=, edition=
, passage=An angel throng, bewinged , bedight In veils, and drowned in tears, Sit in a theatre, to see A play of hopes and fears, While the orchestra breathes fitfully The music of the spheres. }}
As adjectives the difference between bewigged and bewinged
is that bewigged is wearing a wig while bewinged is having wings.bewigged
English
Adjective
(-)- No profanity was intented when zealous, close-cropped, and bare-headed ecclesiastics reminded their bewigged brethren that they were bound to imitate Christ in all things, and then asked them if the Saviour were likely to recognise a resemblance to himself in a priest under a wig.
- Why should anyone imagine that bewigged judges in The Hague will succeed where cold steel has failed?
bewinged
English
Adjective
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