英语词汇“toupee”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

toupee

/ˈtuːpeɪ

noun

A small artificial hairpiece worn to cover a bald spot.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....

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.
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.

Origin

Early 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.

A toupee was initially a curl or a lock of artificial hair; it is an alteration of French toupet ‘hair-tuft’, a diminutive of Old French toup ‘tuft’, distantly related to top.

单词	toupee
释义	toupee /ˈtuːpeɪ / noun A small artificial hairpiece worn to cover a bald spot.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.... 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. 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. Origin Early 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. A toupee was initially a curl or a lock of artificial hair; it is an alteration of French toupet ‘hair-tuft’, a diminutive of Old French toup ‘tuft’, distantly related to top.
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