white-wigged

High-swung barouches, with immense armorial bearings on their panels, driven by fat white-wigged coachmen, and having powdered footmen up behind them; seigniorial phaetons; daring tandems; discreet little broughams, brown or yellow; flippant high dog-carts; low but flippant Ralli-carts; very frivolous private hansoms shaming the more serious public ones.

Archive 2009-05-01 2009

High-swung barouches, with immense armorial bearings on their panels, driven by fat white-wigged coachmen, and having powdered footmen up behind them; seigniorial phaetons; daring tandems; discreet little broughams, brown or yellow; flippant high dog-carts; low but flippant Ralli-carts; very frivolous private hansoms shaming the more serious public ones.

Max 2009

The actor representing Pope Paul III had a round face and crooked nose; the man acting as Cardinal Campeggio was white-wigged and hunched so far over a walking stick that he was nearly bent double.

The Tudors: King Takes Queen Elizabeth Massie 2010

The actor representing Pope Paul III had a round face and crooked nose; the man acting as Cardinal Campeggio was white-wigged and hunched so far over a walking stick that he was nearly bent double.

The Tudors: King Takes Queen Elizabeth Massie 2010

The actor representing Pope Paul III had a round face and crooked nose; the man acting as Cardinal Campeggio was white-wigged and hunched so far over a walking stick that he was nearly bent double.

The Tudors: King Takes Queen Elizabeth Massie 2010

She partied with powerful white-wigged men like Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and Aaron Burr, who she married after her first husband's death.

Carey Dunne: Spooky Spots in Manhattan 2009

Nintendo carries this cutesy, user-friendly style of video gaming over to Wii Music, where the remote works as a musical instrument, cheerful songs abound and a white-wigged character named Sebastian Tute gives instructions.

Playing Do, Re, Mi With Wii 2008

John and his brothers, David and William, such a handful around Mr. Candrieau when the three were together, became almost timid in front of the pale-faced, knobby-kneed beanpole of a white-wigged tutor when alone with him.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

Dick, you may not be running for anything, but you might be running from something: white-wigged justices from the Hague, gavels raised in the air, might be chasing you down Pennsylvania Avenue.

Think Progress » Cheney on Iraq: “full speed ahead 2006

Several liveried, white-wigged servants stood about on duty.

One Night for Love Balogh, Mary 1999