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‖ toupet|tupɛ, ˈtuːpeɪ, ˈtuːpɪt|
[a. F. toupet (tupɛ) tuft of hair, esp. over the forehead, deriv. (in form dim.) of OF. toup, top, tup, tuft of hair, foliage, etc.; ad. *LG. topp- = OHG. zopf top, tuft, summit; cf. OFris. top tuft, top, ONorse toppr top, tuft, lock of hair: see top n.1]
1. = toupee.
1729Art of Politicks 10 Think we that modern words eternal are? Toupet, and Tompion, Cosins, and Colmar Hereafter will be called by some plain man A Wig, a Watch, a Pair of Stays, a Fan. 1818Scott Rob Roy vi, These fadeurs, which every gentleman with a toupet thinks himself obliged to recite to an unfortunate girl. 1863Cornh. Mag. VII. 395 Wigs are dangerous unless frankly avowed. A toupet may easily escape detection.
†b. transf. = toupee b. Obs.
1728Fielding Love in Sev. Masques Epil., From you then— ye toupets—he hopes defence. 1748Richardson Clarissa Wks. 1883 VII. 495 A couple of brocaded or laced-waistcoated toupets..with sour screwed up half-cocked faces.
2. † The forelock of a horse or other animal (obs.); a thick head of hair (in quot., of a Negro).
1797Sporting Mag. X. 295 The Tuft or Toupet, that part of the mane which lies between the two ears. 1834Southey Doctor iii. (1862) 5 Some of the inhabitants of Congo make a secret fob in their woolly toupet.
3. attrib., as toupet-coxcomb, toupet-man, toupet-wig; toupet-titmouse, the Crested Titmouse.
1731Fielding Mod. Husb. i. ix, I meet with nothing but a parcel of toupet coxcombs, who plaster up their brains upon their periwigs. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) VII. vi. 35 No mere toupet-man; but all manly. a1784Pennant Arct. Zool. (1785) II. 423 Titmous. Toupet..feathers on the head long, which it erects occasionally into a pointed crest, like a toupet. 1884E. Yates Rec. & Exper. II. 238 A carefully arranged toupet-wig.
Hence toupeted nonce-wd. |ˈtuːpɪtɪd, ˈtuːpeɪd| a., wearing a toupet.
1903Smart Set IX. 53/2 We go in to dinner with the toupeted colonels. |