bob-wig

• “Miss Dennel, decorated with the Ensign's cocked hat and feather, yet looking pale with fright; Lionel accoutred in the maid's cloaths, and almost in a convulsion of laughter; and Macdersey, in a rage utterly incomprehensible, with the coachman's large bob-wig hanging loose upon his head.”

  Camilla

• “Saint Giles tolled nine, the neat dapper form of the little hale old gentleman was seen at the threshold of the court hall, or at farthest, at the head of the Back Stairs, trimly dressed in a complete suit of snuff-coloured brown, with stockings of silk or woollen as, suited the weather; a bob-wig, and a small cocked hat; shoes blacked as Warren would have blacked them; silver shoe-buckles, and a gold stock-buckle.”

  Redgauntlet

• “Take the Apollo, and set upon him a bob-wig and a little cocked hat; imagine “God Save the King” ending with a jig; fancy a polonaise, or procession of slim, stately, elegant court beauties, headed by a buffoon dancing a hornpipe.”

  Little Travels and Roadside Sketches

• “The eldest might be, on my nearest guess, towards nineteen, a tall comely young man, in a white fustian frock, with a green velvet cape, and a cut bob-wig.”

  Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

• “Upon our way from hence we saw a young fellow riding towards us full gallop, with a bob-wig and a black silken bag tied to it.”

  The Coverley Papers

• “She clothed herself with costly garments, adorned her person with rings and ornaments, and she modeled her hair in the way of a bob-wig.”

  My Neighbors Stories of the Welsh People

• “When does your Royal Highness require the carriage?" whispered a stout little Dutch merchant in a bob-wig.”

  Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 1

• “The Precisions for the most part, though they are plain in their dress, wear the best of commodities, and though a smart toupee [91] is an abomination, yet a bob-wig, or a natural of six or seven guineas 'price, is a modest covering allowed by the saints.”

  Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences

• “[91] This was a small wig covering only the top of the head; a bob-wig was short and tied at the back with a large bow; a natural was a large, full wig, in which the hair was made to look like natural locks.”

  Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences

• “So he tells me," said he dolefully, rubbing his thin finger under the edge of his bob-wig to scratch his perplexed head.”

  The Yeoman Adventurer

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