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toupee
[ too-pey ]
noun
- 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.
toupee
/ ˈtuːpeɪ /
noun
- 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
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Origin of toupee1
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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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