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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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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

Glad, no doubt at least in part, because of the buckets full of disobliging quotes there are about Trump, not least from David Lammy, who once described his host as a “woman-hating, neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath” and a “tyrant in a toupee”.

From BBC

The foreign secretary once called Mr Trump a “neo-Nazi sociopath” and “a tyrant in a toupee” but has since distanced themselves from those comments after he was appointed to Sir Keir Starmer's front bench.

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I didn’t see a horse until 1984 when I got to work the Derby as a reporter for the first time and witnessed the wind carrying Howard Cosell’s toupee aloft.

From Salon

She smiled and stared at him as he dug his thick teeth into the late-autumn grass, a black toupee sliding forward off the top of his head.

She smiled and stared at him as he dug his thick teeth into the late-autumn grass, a black toupee sliding forward off the top of his head.

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