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- noun Plural form of
tiewig .
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Examples
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A few family portraits of lantern-jawed gentlemen in tiewigs, and ladies with large head-dresses and small bodies, hung between the shelves lined with pleasantly-shabby books: books mostly contemporaneous with the ancestors in question, and to which the subsequent Tremors had made no perceptible adelitions.
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987
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A few family portraits of lantern-jawed gentlemen in tiewigs, and ladies with large head-dresses and small bodies, hung between the shelves lined with pleasantly-shabby books: books mostly contemporaneous with the ancestors in question, and to which the subsequent Tremors had made no perceptible adelitions.
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987
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A few family portraits of lantern-jawed gentlemen in tiewigs, and ladies with large head-dresses and small bodies, hung between the shelves lined with pleasantly-shabby books: books mostly contemporaneous with the ancestors in question, and to which the subsequent Tremors had made no perceptible adelitions.
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987
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