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toupee

[ too-pey ]

noun

  1. a man's wig.
  2. a patch of false hair for covering a bald spot.
  3. (formerly) a curl or an artificial lock of hair on the top of the head, especially as a crowning feature of a periwig.


toupee

/ ˈtuːpeɪ /

noun

  1. a wig or hairpiece worn, esp by men, to cover a bald or balding place
  2. (formerly) a prominent lock on a periwig, esp in the 18th century


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Word History and Origins

Origin of toupee1

1720–30; variant of toupet < French, equivalent to Old French to ( u ) p tuft (< Germanic; top 1 ) + -et -et

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Word History and Origins

Origin of toupee1

C18: apparently from French toupet forelock, from Old French toup top, of Germanic origin; see top 1

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Example Sentences

Try using double-sided wig or toupee tape to affix hearing aids or implants to the side of your head for an “added layer of protection,” Rubin suggested.

Or Mr. Carmine, a Yonkers toupee-maker with a thick Italian accent and a (very) full head of gray hair.

With 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 toupee episode was probably nothing more than a crazy coincidence anyway.

Applicant number three, Mr. Boles, was not only wearing a toupee but had gone one step further.

He was a short, thick-set man, with his white-grey hair carefully brushed up into a toupee, the fashion of his youth.

Yet the Doctor, whose heels were thicker and his toupee higher, was six feet two without those advantages.

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