ˈtie-wig
Also tye-wig.
[Cf. tie- 3.]
A wig having the hair gathered together behind and tied with a knot of ribbon.
| 1713 Gay Guard. No. 149 ¶17 The smart tye-wig with the black ribbon. 1816 Scott Antiq. iii, In tie-wigs and laced coats. 1852 Thackeray Esmond iii. v, The gentleman-usher's horror when the Prince of Savoy was introduced to her Majesty in a tie-wig, no man out of a full-bottomed periwig ever having kissed the Royal hand before. |
| attrib. 1887 Browning Parleyings, B. de Mandeville iv, Addison's tye-wig preachment. |
Hence
ˈtie-wigged (
-wɪgd)
a., wearing a tie-wig.
| 1763 Brit. Mag. IV. 605 The powder'd tye-wigged sons of soot Trip to the shovel with a shoeless foot. |