wig-maker

• “Franklin's success prompted the rumor that no wig-maker could now find a perruque big enough for the swollen head of the transatlantic man who, when it came to it, appeared in court "coiffed in his own scattered white locks" and without a sword on his hip.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Why They All Came to Versailles

• “Cromford Mill, as it was named, was the work of two men: Richard Arkwright, a former barber-surgeon and wig-maker, and Jedediah Strutt, a Nottingham manufacturer of stockings and inventor of an ingenious 'frame' for the machine-knitting of ribbed stockings.”

  The Wall Street Journal: 'The Industrial Revolutionaries'

• “Gavroche replied with great simplicity: — “They are some brats that a wig-maker made me a present of.””

  Les Miserables

• “Notrelle, the most celebrated wig-maker in Paris, who had in his day a prodigious vogue.”

  The Story of Versailles

• “I'm going to that wig-maker fellow to get him to make me up just like this snap-shot of that picture, he'll do it in half an hour, dress and all.”

  Oh! Susannah! A Farcical Comedy in Three Acts

• “Curiously enough, this extravagant medical attendance was not infrequently called into requisition by the marvellous acting of Mrs Siddons, the wife of a former theatrical wig-maker.”

  The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1

• “Nothing of importance this morning; prospectuses, mostly: a wig-maker, special theatrical department; a manufacturer of traveling-hampers, for South”

  The Bill-Toppers

• “-- 'To commence wig-maker on my own bottom,' answered I. -- 'But with respect to my daughter, sir?”

  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 339, November 8, 1828

• “Armed with this knowledge, a needy individual by the name of William Lill applied to the waiter at Alice's, and made a request for a Mr. Clarke's gown and wig, saying that he had been sent by a well-known lawyers 'wig-maker and dresser.”

  Inns and Taverns of Old London

• “Some time before the period at which our story has arrived, Haydn had been engaged to teach the harpsichord to the two daughters of a wig-maker named Keller.”

  Story-Lives of Great Musicians

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