Wig

—an arrangement of false hair for concealing baldne or for the supposed adornment of the head; origin lost in antiquity. From the time of Louis XIII until nearly the close of the 18th century gentlemen could not or would not appear without one. In those days wigs were of innumerable sizes and shapes and bore descriptiv names, those of England and colonial America being often whimsical and, to us now, grotesque, as: Adonis, allonge, beau peruke, bob, brigadier, campaign, club, cut-w., corded wolf’s paw, Count Saxe’s mode, giddy feather top, Greg or i an, grave full-bottom, Grecian fly, Jansenist, lavant, lawyer’s long tail, fox-tail, full-bottom, feather top, macaroni toupee, major, minor, neck lock, scratch, spinach seed, she-dragon, snail back, Ramillies, tie, twist, royal bird, tuck, wild boar’s back, vallancy, dalmahoy, rhinoceros, Tyburn, cauliflower, curley roys, minister’s bob, airy levants, etc. Wigs are still worn on the English bench and by the speaker of the House of Commons.