tye-wig

• “Now the chapter I was obliged to tear out, was the description of this cavalcade, in which Corporal Trim and Obadiah, upon two coach-horses a - breast, led the way as slow as a patrole — whilst my uncle Toby, in his laced regimentals and tye-wig, kept his rank with my father, in deep roads and dissertations alternately upon the advantage of learning and arms, as each could get the start. —”

  The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

• “Now the chapter I was obliged to tear out, was the description of this cavalcade, in which Corporal Trim and Obadiah, upon two coach-horses a-breast, led the way as slow as a patrole — whilst my uncle Toby, in his laced regimentals and tye-wig, kept his rank with my father, in deep roads and dissertations alternately upon the advantage of learning and arms, as each could get the start. —”

  The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

• “Never mind the bend-sinister, said my uncle Toby, putting on his tye-wig. —”

  The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

• “Let my old tye-wig, quoth my uncle Toby, and my laced regimentals, be hung to the fire all night, Trim.”

  The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

• “-- He took Miss Powis on his knee; -- call'd her a hundred times his dear, dear daughter; -- and I could not forbear laughing, when he told her he had not wore a tye-wig before these twenty years.”

  Barford Abbey

• “Mr. Radcliffe was dressed in mourning, and had, according to his own subsequent account to a fellow prisoner in Newgate, a "brown tye-wig.”

  Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.

• “All gray he was, and the sun glistened on his gray tye-wig as he waited.”

  Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes

• “The remark of Mandeville, who, when he had passed an evening in his company, declared that he was a parson in a tye-wig, can detract little from his character; he was always reserved to strangers, and was not incited to uncommon freedom by a character like that of Mandeville.”

  Life of Addison, 1672-1719

• “[842] 'The physicians in Hogarth's prints are not caricatures: the full dress with a sword and a great tye-wig, and the hat under the arm, and the doctors in consultation, each smelling to a gold-headed cane shaped like a parish-beadle's staff, are pictures of real life in his time, and myself have seen a young physician thus equipped walk the streets of London without attracting the eyes of passengers.”

  Life of Johnson

• “Upon Cookery M. Rouquet is edifying; and concerning the eighteenth-century physician, with his tye-wig and gilt-head cane, sprightly and not unmalicious.”

  De Libris: Prose and Verse

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