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What is the noun for wigmaker?

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wig
  1. A head of real or synthetic hair worn on the head to disguise baldness, for cultural or religious reasons, for fashion, or by actors to help them better resemble the character they are portraying.
  2. (dated, among fishermen) An old seal.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Hair has stopped growing on most of her skull, and she wears a wig to cover her baldness.”
wiggery
  1. (archaic) A wig or wigs; false hair.
  2. (archaic) Any cover or screen, such as red-tapism.
  3. Examples:
    1. “There was nothing about their outward appearance of the august wiggery of statecraft, nothing of the ponderous dignity of ministerial position.”
wigging
wigman
  1. Among the Huli people of Papua New Guinea, a male warrior who grows his hair long in order to weave it into a ceremonial wig.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Mary Wigman and Doris Humphrey founded the modern expressionist dance individualized by the subject of action and the dramatic expressivity of the movement.”
wigmaker
  1. A person who makes wigs.
  2. Examples:
    1. “I have made a tyrant of the wigmaker, and a confidant of the carpenter's apprentice, who has a magnificent voice.”
      “The name is said to be an old Spanish and Italian word for a wigmaker, connected with the verb cigarrar, to roll in paper.”
      “We are told that they were in the habit of playing with the children of a wigmaker who lived in the adjoining house.”
wiglet
  1. A small wig.
wigmakers
  1. plural of wigmaker
wiggeries
  1. plural of wiggery
wigmen
  1. plural of wigman
wiglets
  1. plural of wiglet
wigs
  1. plural of wig
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “As the emotional heat turns up, they unlace their hearts and their consciences, shedding their wigs and letting their hair down.”
      “Human hair wigs can be restyled using heating devices, such as curling irons.”
      “Some of the headsets have tiny, curled British barristers' wigs perched on top of them.”
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