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Full-bottomed   Listen
adjective
Full-bottomed  adj.  
1.
Full and large at the bottom, as wigs worn by certain civil officers in Great Britain.
2.
(Naut.) Of great capacity below the water line.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Full-bottomed" Quotes from Famous Books



... century. Into such caps readers have seen Sir Francis North put his fees. The portrait of Sir Cresswell Levinz (who returned to the bar on dismissal from the bench in 1686) shows that he wore a full-bottomed wig whilst he was a judge; whereas Sir Thomas Street, who remained a judge till the close of James II.'s reign, wore his own hair ...
— A Book About Lawyers • John Cordy Jeaffreson



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