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• n  someone who makes and sells wigs

• Their father was a London wigmaker and hairdresser.
• What Akutagawa intended as the subtle shadow play of appearance and reality becomes, in the wigmaker's summing up, little more than an optical illusion: "Truth is a firefly.
• Then Professor Bedford's icy body was flown to Phoenix, where Edward Hope, a wigmaker by trade, waited with the capsule he had designed and put the professor's remains in liquid .

Quotes

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• Benjamin Franklin in San Francisco Chronicle
  Franklin writes, "I had not been here Six Days before my Taylor and Peruquier [wigmaker] had transform'd me into a Frenchman ...... being in Paris where the Mode is to be sacredly follow'd."