toupee
a man's wig.
a patch of false hair for covering a bald spot.
(formerly) a curl or an artificial lock of hair on the top of the head, especially as a crowning feature of a periwig.
Origin of toupee
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How to use toupee in a sentence
Or Mr. Carmine, a Yonkers toupee-maker with a thick Italian accent and a (very) full head of gray hair.
In ‘Mansome,’ Morgan Spurlock Takes On Modern Masculinity | Jessica Bennett | April 27, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTWith his broad, regal forehead, penetrating eyes, and startlingly black toupee, Atabay is an intimidating figure.
When everybody who is after a key military job wears a toupee, it is obviously a bald case of espionage.
The Observers | G. L. VandenburgThe toupee episode was probably nothing more than a crazy coincidence anyway.
The Observers | G. L. VandenburgApplicant number three, Mr. Boles, was not only wearing a toupee but had gone one step further.
The Observers | G. L. Vandenburg
He was a short, thick-set man, with his white-grey hair carefully brushed up into a toupee, the fashion of his youth.
Old and New London | Walter ThornburyYet the Doctor, whose heels were thicker and his toupee higher, was six feet two without those advantages.
The Chaplain of the Fleet | Walter Besant and James Rice
British Dictionary definitions for toupee
/ (ˈtuːpeɪ) /
a wig or hairpiece worn, esp by men, to cover a bald or balding place
(formerly) a prominent lock on a periwig, esp in the 18th century
Origin of toupee
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