Crossword clues for toupee
toupee
- Bald spot coverer
- Bald spot cover
- Alternative to a hair weave
- Piece on top
- Midlife crisis cover-up?
- Man's wig
- Locks you pick?
- Implants alternative
- Howard Cosell's topper
- Cheap alternative to Rogaine
- Bean topper?
- Unbelievable cover?
- Theatrical piece?
- Substitute for the unlocked?
- Spot coverage?
- Spot cover, of a sort
- Rug you don't walk on
- Rug with a part
- Rug on one's pate
- Rug often groomed
- Male wig
- Locks removed at night?
- Little rug
- It may cover a spot
- It may cover a loss
- It may be put on the spot
- It covers a rather large bald spot
- Iffy thing to wear in a windstorm?
- Hair that might be there when there's none there
- Guy's wig
- Fake hair for a man
- Extra locks
- Dome cover?
- Decoration for a baldpate
- Cosell trademark
- Bean topper
- Bald spot concealer
- Bald guy's fake hair
- Alternative to plugs
- Noodle topper
- "Dome doily"
- Picked locks?
- Spot remover?
- Something put on the spot?
- Rogaine alternative
- False top
- Rug, so to speak
- Rug with nothing swept under it?
- Top secret?
- Item removed before showering
- "Rug" on the scalp
- A small hairpiece to cover partial baldness
- Cosell's "rug"
- "Scalp doily"
- Wig
- Kind of periwig
- Cosell topper
- "Rug" on a pate
- Hairpiece
- Headpiece
- Wiglet
- Vocal pair lay out rug
- Why one visits bathroom without posh rug
- Small hairpiece to cover bald patch
- Artificial hair
- Leading European twice acquiring posh rug
- Pout about extremely expensive hair product
- Hairpiece lifted on Owen's head in part of golf course
- Spare hair
- Head cover
- Comb-over alternative
- Removable locks
- Fake locks
- Pate cover
- Artificial locks
- Store-bought hair
- Dome covering
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Toupee \Tou*pee"\ (?; 277), Toupet \Tou*pet"\ (?; 277), n. [F. toupet, dim. of OF. top a tuft; of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. top. See Top apex, and cf. Topet.]
A little tuft; a curl or artificial lock of hair.
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A small wig, or a toppiece of a wig.
Her powdered hair is turned backward over a toupee.
--G. Eliot.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1727, from French toupet "tuft of hair, forelock," diminutive formed from Old French top "tuft, forelock, topknot" (12c.), from Frankish *top or another Germanic source related to top (n.1) "highest point." Originally an artificial curl or lock on the top of the head; a style, not necessarily a compensation for baldness. In 18c., also sometimes used of a person who wears a toupee. Slang short form toup is recorded from 1959.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A wig of false hair worn to cover a bald spot, especially as worn by a man. 2 (context obsolete English) A little tuft; a curl or artificial lock of hair. 3 (context obsolete English) A small wig, or a toppiece of a wig.
n. (alternative spelling of toupee English)
WordNet
n. a small hairpiece to cover partial baldness [syn: toupe]
Wikipedia
A toupée is a hairpiece or partial wig of natural or synthetic hair worn to cover partial baldness or for theatrical purposes. While toupées and hairpieces are typically associated with male wearers, some women also use hairpieces to lengthen existing hair, or cover a partially exposed scalp. The desire to wear hairpieces is a response to a long-standing bias against balding that crosses cultures, dating to at least 3100 BC. Toupée manufacturers' financial results indicate that toupée use is in overall decline, due in part to alternative methods for dealing with baldness, and to greater cultural acceptance of the condition.
'Toupee' is a song written by Colin Lane and Frank Woodley of the successful Australian comedy duo Lano and Woodley. The song is about a man who owns a toupee, and who is describing all the things he is able to use it for. Some of the uses include a pot scourer, a fake beard, as an oven mit and for storing pyjamas. The song was released on their live 2005 album, Lano & Woodley Sing Songs.
Usage examples of "toupee".
Pentagon, in the beflagged office of the omnipotent Secretary of Defense, a tiny man with a pinched face and a slightly askew toupee sat on three cushions behind an enormous desk and virtually spat into his telephone.
Trixie was evicted, the cups were laid aside, Mister Snaith reversed his cloak and straightened his toupee.
Theodore Soars-With-Eagles in his tepee, his warbonnet and toupee askew.
Both full wigs and hairpieces, neatly separated into toupees and falls, lined one wall, each hanging on special cotton-covered wire.
A toupee, don't y' know, is the sartorial sine qua non of every middle-aged Beau Brummel afflicted with baldness.
She dearly hoped she wouldn't hear a passing remark about rodeo clowns or lounge lizards in glistening black toupees.
Oh, yes, and unleash with a fury a plague of locusts to nest in the toupee of the Senate Minority Leader from the great state of Mississippi.
Oh, she was glad to be back in Havana, holding Fidel's hand as a fussy gringo tried to restore the illusion of vitality—gluing on the frizzy beard, aligning a new toupee, ruddying the cheeks, powdering the shadows around the hollowing eyes.
A large trunk in one corner, which he unlocked with his own key, revealed a selection of expensive cameras and flash equipment, besides a host of facial props including hair tints and dyes, toupees, wigs, spectacles in great variety and a case of theatrical cosmetics.
Wigs, women's underwear, toupees and anything else that was small and soft were stuffed into the crevices between the limbs.
Hogg looked around, seeing John the Spaniard and the three Albanian waiters from the Sweet Thames Run Softly bar downstairs all looking terrible in coarse golliwog toupees that were meant to be a kind of homage, so Hogg understood, to an enviable aspect of youth typified by these blasphemous obscenities -- namely, a riotous and sickening excess of head-hair.
Furthermore, neither of them had had a customer in many weeks who had wanted a red wig, or who was in the habit of using wigs or toupees of various colors.