NOUN
- a covering or bunch of human or artificial hair used for disguise or adornment
- something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be
How To Use postiche In A Sentence
- I have a fragment of their plaster postiche copying the close-grained Egyptian granite; the oily lustre of the quartz is so fresh and the peculiar structure of the rock, with its mica scintillations, so admirably rendered as to deceive, after two thousand years, the eye of a trained mineralogist.] Old Calabria
- Also: une mèche folle = a stray lock/wisp of hair une mèche rebelle = a wayward lock of hair une mèche lente = a safety fuse une mèche postiche = a hairpiece, toupee Enfants
- Fastidiousness, at any rate, is very good _postiche_ for modesty: it is always decent, it can never be coarse. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida
- A metal false beard, or postiche, which was a sign of sovereignty, was worn by queens as well as kings ... a fashion existing from about 3000 to 1580 BC. Summer Qassim: Beard Feared, Sheared
- I encountered a number of words new to me in an enigmatic post chez l'Eudæmoniste (chez whom there is nil postiche) that is either a riff on the word post itself or a gloomy meditation (or of course both). Languagehat.com: POSTIL.
- You men wear your hats on your heads, and can easily get them straight; we don't, we wear them on our hair, or our scalpettes, or our transformations, or on any _postiche_ that may be fashionable or necessary, and can only tell whether they are straight, or even the right way round, by means of a looking-glass. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"