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toupée

toupée is the alternative spelling of toupee.

Meaning of toupee

Noun

toupee (plural toupees)

  1. A wig of false hair worn to cover a bald spot, especially as worn by a man.
    • Near-synonym: hair system
  2. (obsolete) A small tuft; a curl or artificial lock of hair.
  3. (obsolete) A small wig, or a toppiece of a wig, worn by both sexes.
    • Her powdered hair is turned backward over a toupee.1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

Forms of toupée

pluraltoupées

Origin of toupée

Pseudo-Gallicism, derived from toupee with an acute accent over the second e based on the false assumption that the word was directly borrowed from *toupée, the actual French word being toupet. Compare devotée and repartée, which have similar etymologies.

Phrases with toupée

Questions about toupée

What is toupée the alternative spelling of?
Toupée is the alternative spelling of toupee.

Words near toupée in the dictionary

  1. toupie Hollandaise
  2. Toupin
  3. Toupins
  4. Toups
  5. Toupses
  6. toupée
  7. toupée fallacies
  8. toupée fallacy
  9. toupées
  10. touque
  11. touques

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Adapted from Wiktionary: toupée (page history and authors); toupee (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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