wiggery

A wig or wigs; false hair.

Noun

  1. A wig or wigs; false hair.
    • There was nothing about their outward appearance of the august wiggery of statecraft, nothing of the ponderous dignity of ministerial position. - 1868, Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn:
  2. Any cover or screen, such as red-tapism.
    • Fire peels the wiggeries away from them [facts]. - 1858–1865, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Chapman and Hall, […],...

Origin

From wig + -ery.

Forms

wiggeries