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In other projects Appearance move to sidebar hide From Wiktionary, the free dictionary See also: toupée

English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:toupeeWikipedia

Alternative forms

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• toupe, toupée, toupet

Etymology

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1727, from French toupet (“small tuft of hair, forelock”), from Middle French toupet (“small tuft of hair, forelock”), from Old French toupet (“small tuft of hair, forelock”), diminutive of toupe, top (“tuft of hair”), from Frankish *topp (“summit, crest, tuft of hair”), from Proto-Germanic *tuppaz (“summit, crest, tuft of hair”). Cognate with Old Dutch topp (“top”) (Dutch top), Old Frisian top (“summit, crest, tuft of hair”), Old English top (“summit, crest, tuft of hair”), Old High German zopf (“end, summit, tuft of hair”), Old Norse toppr (“tuft of hair, forelock”). More at top.

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /tuːˈpeɪ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪ

Noun

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toupee (plural toupees)

1. A wig of false hair worn to cover a bald spot, especially as worn by a man. Synonym: hairpiece Coordinate term: hair topper Near-synonym: hair system
2. (obsolete) A small tuft; a curl or artificial lock of hair.
3. (obsolete) A small wig, or a toppiece of a wig, worn by both sexes.
   • 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss:Her powdered hair is turned backward over a toupee.

Derived terms

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• toupeed
• toupee fallacy

Translations

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Bulgarian: тупе n (tupe) Danish: tupé c Finnish: hiuslisäke (fi), tupee (fi) French: toupet (fr) m German: Toupet (de) n Greek: περουκίνι (el) n (peroukíni) Hungarian: tupé Italian: toppè m Japanese: 鬘 (ja) (katsura) Korean: 가발 (ko) (gabal) Navajo: tsiigháshchíín Norwegian: Bokmål: tupé (no) m Nynorsk: tupé m Polish: tupet (pl) m, tupecik (pl) m, peruczka (pl) f Russian: пари́к (ru) m (parík) Serbo-Croatian: tupé (sh) m Spanish: peluca de hombre f, peluquín (es) m, bisoñé (es) m Swedish: tupé (sv) Tagalog: tambulok

References

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• “toupee”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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