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bigwig. All of Europe’s royalty aped France’s Louis XIV when he took to wearing long, flowing wigs in his middle years. In En- gland especially, the more important a man was, or imagined himself to be, the bigger the wig he likely would wear. In fact, custom soon dictated that only the nobility, judges, and bishops were permitted to wear the full-length wig still retained in Brit- ish courts of law. By then the word bigwig, for “an important person,” had passed into the language. |