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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hairpiece
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Brent, in spite of the obvious hairpiece and the gold chain, is a rebel.
▪ Look-Willard Scott has lost his hairpiece!
▪ The very first day her ad ran, she got a call for a hairpiece to be worn at a trendy wedding.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
hairpiece

hairpiece \hair"piece`\ n. a covering or bunch of human or artificial hair used for disguise or adornment; a toupee.

Syn: false hair, postiche, toupee.

Wiktionary
hairpiece

n. A false substitute for a person's hair; a toupee or wig.

WordNet
hairpiece

n. a covering or bunch of human or artificial hair used for disguise or adornment [syn: false hair, postiche]

Usage examples of "hairpiece".

Out in the parking lot, Johnson, in an expensive red wig, sat in his car, the briefcase full of hairpieces, cosmetics, and prosthetic devices open on the seat beside him.

Two black velvet hairpieces, shaped like the ears of a cat, adorned her scalp, while a very familiar silver collar glittered around her pale, alabaster neck.

Both full wigs and hairpieces, neatly separated into toupees and falls, lined one wall, each hanging on special cotton-covered wire.

He studied the nondescript features of the man carefully and then checked the contents of his portable makeup kit and various hairpieces he had brought with him.

They simply vanished, leaving behind everything material: clothes, eyeglasses, contact lenses, hairpieces, hearing aids, fillings, jewelry, shoes, even pacemakers and surgical pins.

He turned his back to the Pennsylvania German schrank, which had suddenly become Austrian, and Qwilleran was glad that the cat staring at the hairpiece was Koko and not his accomplice.

Olaf, Swedish shipping agent and drunk, with pebble spectacles and a wire-wool hairpiece, yelling in his cherished Oxford accent that wasn't one: 'I say, Brother Harry, old chap, good show, cheers.

He peeled off the hairpiece as if it were a surgical dressing, and I shut my eyes in sympathy as the sudden light blinded her.