WIG

artificial hair headdre , worn from earliest times as covering for baldne , disguise, or ornament; found on ical writers; popular in France from XIV. cent., in Eng. from reign of Queen Anne; long ringlets were worn by nobility, plainer form by bishops and lawyers, horsehair w.’s still worn by barristers and judges. town, on Douglas River, Lancashire, England; collieries; cotton manufactures; foundries, forges. Pop. (1921) 91,200.