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toupet


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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}.] 
  1.  A  little  tuft;  a  curl  or  artificial  lock  of  hair. 
 
  2.  A  small  wig,  or  a  toppiece  of  a  wig. 
 
  Her  powdered  hair  is  turned  backward  over  a  toupee. 
  --G.  Eliot.