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Definition of toupee in English: toupeenoun ˈtuːpeɪtuˈpeɪ A small artificial hairpiece worn to cover a bald spot. 遮秃假发；小型假发 Example sentencesExamples - He tore through the number and, toward the end, shook his long, slicked-back blond hair until it fell forward, like a toupee attached at the brow line, virtually covering his face.
- Coming from two families of bald men - father, husband, and father-in-law all started losing their hair in their late teens - I don't understand men who wear toupees, much like I don't understand women who wear falsies.
- There was a time when a bottle of hair dye, pancake make-up, a toupee and a darkly lighted room was about the best effort we could make.
- On the run from France for assorted crimes, he attaches himself, gargoyle-like, to the hotel as a year-round resident, and sets up shop in the town making hair adornments - from toupees to merkins to funeral jewellery.
- But that doesn't mean we should pass laws banning soup kitchens, toupees, or jeans above a size eight.
- For men, halfhearted comb-overs, plugs, weaves, and toupees are strictly forbidden and will be cause for harsh disciplinary action.
- In America, I have to cope with tone-deaf cocktail pianists with fire-retardant toupees.
- So… here's some advice: no comb-overs, no toupees, wigs or other attachments.
- They will resort to toupees and tucks, soft-focus lighting and soft-fleshed leading ladies of an entirely inappropriate age.
- I've seen ads for beautiful toupees for as low as $9.95.
- That's why comb-overs or toupees or other attempts to disguise it (including shaving, but less so) are seen as very unattractive.
- Gruesome and downright unhygienic as the use of such objects now seems, it may be surmised that in the twenty-first century it will be thought equally unpleasant that the best wigs and toupees of the 1960s were made of human hair.
- And to split hairs: how would a toupee be classified?
- He'll lift his toupee off his head like it's a top hat.
- On the night a courageous gentleman from the village has kindly offered to have his head shaved and this hair will be auctioned and made into a toupee for his boss.
- And all of us want to know if your hair is real, or it's a toupee or if it's comb-over, died amalgamation or mix of one of the above?
- It's so cool and new, in fact, that it opened yesterday, and at the tables around us, we see nose jobs and breast implants and toupees, and what happens if you get addicted to Botox.
- I see a world where in places of darkness, toupees and comb overs plot with the glass controller.
- There was unkind talk in the press about him dyeing his hair, possibly even wearing a toupee.
- A court in Dresden ruled today the government is not required to pay for toupees.
Synonyms head of hair, shock of hair, mop of hair, mane
OriginEarly 18th century (denoting a curl or lock of artificial hair): alteration of French toupet 'hair tuft', diminutive of Old French toup 'tuft', ultimately of Germanic origin and related to top1. Definition of toupee in US English: toupeenountuˈpeɪto͞oˈpā A small wig or artificial hairpiece worn to cover a bald spot. 遮秃假发；小型假发 Example sentencesExamples - That's why comb-overs or toupees or other attempts to disguise it (including shaving, but less so) are seen as very unattractive.
- Coming from two families of bald men - father, husband, and father-in-law all started losing their hair in their late teens - I don't understand men who wear toupees, much like I don't understand women who wear falsies.
- For men, halfhearted comb-overs, plugs, weaves, and toupees are strictly forbidden and will be cause for harsh disciplinary action.
- There was a time when a bottle of hair dye, pancake make-up, a toupee and a darkly lighted room was about the best effort we could make.
- They will resort to toupees and tucks, soft-focus lighting and soft-fleshed leading ladies of an entirely inappropriate age.
- It's so cool and new, in fact, that it opened yesterday, and at the tables around us, we see nose jobs and breast implants and toupees, and what happens if you get addicted to Botox.
- He tore through the number and, toward the end, shook his long, slicked-back blond hair until it fell forward, like a toupee attached at the brow line, virtually covering his face.
- On the night a courageous gentleman from the village has kindly offered to have his head shaved and this hair will be auctioned and made into a toupee for his boss.
- And to split hairs: how would a toupee be classified?
- On the run from France for assorted crimes, he attaches himself, gargoyle-like, to the hotel as a year-round resident, and sets up shop in the town making hair adornments - from toupees to merkins to funeral jewellery.
- I've seen ads for beautiful toupees for as low as $9.95.
- I see a world where in places of darkness, toupees and comb overs plot with the glass controller.
- So… here's some advice: no comb-overs, no toupees, wigs or other attachments.
- And all of us want to know if your hair is real, or it's a toupee or if it's comb-over, died amalgamation or mix of one of the above?
- In America, I have to cope with tone-deaf cocktail pianists with fire-retardant toupees.
- He'll lift his toupee off his head like it's a top hat.
- A court in Dresden ruled today the government is not required to pay for toupees.
- But that doesn't mean we should pass laws banning soup kitchens, toupees, or jeans above a size eight.
- Gruesome and downright unhygienic as the use of such objects now seems, it may be surmised that in the twenty-first century it will be thought equally unpleasant that the best wigs and toupees of the 1960s were made of human hair.
- There was unkind talk in the press about him dyeing his hair, possibly even wearing a toupee.
Synonyms head of hair, shock of hair, mop of hair, mane
OriginEarly 18th century (denoting a curl or lock of artificial hair): alteration of French toupet ‘hair tuft’, diminutive of Old French toup ‘tuft’, ultimately of Germanic origin and related to top. |