Dictionary entry
Toupee
Pronunciation: /ˈtuːpeɪ/
Pronunciation
/ˈtuːpeɪ/
Myanmar Meaning
(ဦးခေါင်းတစ်နေရာဖုံးရန်) ဆံပင်တု။
Definition
toupee /'tu:peÇ; US tu:'peÇ/ n (ဦးေခါင္းတစ္ေနရာဖံုးရန္) ဆံပင္တု။
Examples
- ‘And to split hairs: how would a toupee be classified?’
- ‘There was a time when a bottle of hair dye
- pancake make-up
- a toupee and a darkly lighted room was about the best effort we could make.’
- ‘It's so cool and new
- in fact
- that it opened yesterday
- and at the tables around us
- we see nose jobs and breast implants and toupees
- and what happens if you get addicted to Botox.’
- ‘I've seen ads for beautiful toupees for as low as $9.95.’
- ‘And all of us want to know if your hair is real
- or it's a toupee or if it's comb-over
- died amalgamation or mix of one of the above?’
- ‘He'll lift his toupee off his head like it's a top hat.’
- ‘Coming from two families of bald men - father
- husband
- and father-in-law all started losing their hair in their late teens - I don't understand men who wear toupees
- much like I don't understand women who wear falsies.’
- ‘They will resort to toupees and tucks
- soft-focus lighting and soft-fleshed leading ladies of an entirely inappropriate age.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘There was unkind talk in the press about him dyeing his hair
- possibly even wearing a toupee.’
- ‘That's why comb-overs or toupees or other attempts to disguise it (including shaving
- but less so) are seen as very unattractive.’
- ‘I see a world where in places of darkness
- toupees and comb overs plot with the glass controller.’
- ‘For men
- halfhearted comb-overs
- plugs
- weaves
- and toupees are strictly forbidden and will be cause for harsh disciplinary action.’
- ‘So… here's some advice: no comb-overs
- no toupees
- wigs or other attachments.’
- ‘In America
- I have to cope with tone-deaf cocktail pianists with fire-retardant toupees.’
- ‘A court in Dresden ruled today the government is not required to pay for toupees.’
- ‘On the night a courageous gentleman from the village has kindly offered to have his head shaved and this hair will be auctioned and made into a toupee for his boss.’
- ‘But that doesn't mean we should pass laws banning soup kitchens
- toupees
- or jeans above a size eight.’