How To Use Toupe In A Sentence
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And the enamored, if usurping, duke wept bitterly and tore his hair to such an extent he totally destroyed his best toupet.
The Certain Hour
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There was unkind talk in the press about him dyeing his hair, possibly even wearing a toupee.
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I left the young gentlemen of France with their hair brushed en toupet in front, and the toes of their boots round; now the boot-toes are pointed, and the hair combed flat, and, parted in the middle, falls in ringlets on the fashionable shoulders; and, in like manner, with books as with boots, the fashion has changed considerably, and it is not a little curious to contrast the old modes with the new.
The Paris Sketch Book
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Eventually, when nature demanded, the comb-over and the Orlon toupee would pass muster.
Shortcut Man
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For men, halfhearted comb-overs, plugs, weaves, and toupees are strictly forbidden and will be cause for harsh disciplinary action.
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Balzac, in replying, referred to Lemaitre's _toupet_, and explained that, when disguising Vautrin as a Mexican general, he had in his mind General Murat.
Balzac
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You've also written about his toupee and you've written about what you call his reputation for goatish pursuit of young women was an open secret.
CNN Transcript Sep 21, 2002
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They will resort to toupees and tucks, soft-focus lighting and soft-fleshed leading ladies of an entirely inappropriate age.
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So… here's some advice: no comb-overs, no toupees, wigs or other attachments.
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I'll sprinkle glitter all over the toupeed Heritage Foundation Glitteratti.
Archive 2005-10-16
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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.
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The hook points out that Eberling is a tall, bald man who wore "bushy" toupees, and witnesses testified they saw a "bushy-haired" man near the Sheppard home on the morning after the murder.
Hunting 'The Fugitive'
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In America, I have to cope with tone-deaf cocktail pianists with fire-retardant toupees.
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On a preshow shopping jaunt in the resort's theme park, Jackson rendered himself inconspicuous with a hooded ninja-style get-up, while Milken went with the postprison toupeeless look.
Odd Couples
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He'll lift his toupee off his head like it's a top hat.
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I've seen ads for beautiful toupees for as low as $9.95.
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Then as it drew closer I realised that it was a toupee and that the wind had blown it straight of his baldy head.
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That's why comb-overs or toupees or other attempts to disguise it (including shaving, but less so) are seen as very unattractive.
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This also looks a lot better than trying to hide your hair loss with a hairpiece or toupee.
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An often profane showman who was known for wearing the world's worst toupee, Traficant routinely ended his explosive, stem-winding floor speeches by quoting the "Star Trek" line "Beam me up!
Jim Traficant's trying times of 2002 could be repeated for Rep. Charles Rangel
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I am ashamed of being a young rake, when my seniors are covering their grey toupees with helmets and feathers, and accoutering their pot-bellies with cuirasses and martial masquerade habits.
Letters of Horace Walpole 01
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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.
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And to split hairs: how would a toupee be classified?
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Revolutionary heroine could have found rest, -- its pinched, starved, and double-starched portraits of defunct Hydes, Puritanic to the very ends of toupet and periwig, -- little Mrs. Hyde was deep enough in love with her tall and handsome husband to overlook the upholstery of a home he glorified, and to care little for comfort elsewhere, so long as she could nestle on his knee and rest her curly head against his shoulder.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859
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His effort with a toupee was equally unsuccessful when a ride at the local amusement park caused his wig to come undone - hair-raising experience indeed!
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Balzac, in replying, referred to Lemaitre's toupet, and explained that, when disguising Vautrin as a Mexican general, he had in his mind General Murat.
Balzac
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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.
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I, on the other hand, unable to engage them in conversation without the fear of being bludgeoned to death by a giant toupeed trouser snake, told everybody on the street.
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Toupee that masks a bad or excessive waxing job (popularly known as a "merkin").
The latest from teenvogue.com
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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.
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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.
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`Like a bad toupee on your grandmother,' was how Pine described it.
THE MANANA MAN
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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?
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Her dress and her toupet were black, relieved by silver sequins and a silver mounted tiara.
The Tragic Bride
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His toupee shows up next to the dictionary listing for "varmint".
Dishonest hair
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Lenny shook the sweaty toupee from his face and looked at the man at the desk.
THE TEACHER
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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.
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A court in Dresden ruled today the government is not required to pay for toupees.
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Toupees and hairpieces aren't cheap either, and they're high maintenance.
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Physically awkward, socially uncomfortable, mechanically rigid, and not balding, but conclusively balded, having lost it and pointing it out with a toupee.
Haroon Moghul: Finding Meaning In The Death Of A Teacher
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For men, halfhearted comb-overs, plugs, weaves, and toupees are strictly forbidden and will be cause for harsh disciplinary action.
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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
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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.
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But come, never mind it — You are belied, Mr. Osbaldistone, unless you have much better conversation than these fadeurs, which every gentleman with a toupet thinks himself obliged to recite to an unfortunate girl, merely because she is dressed in silk and gauze, while he wears superfine cloth with embroidery.
Rob Roy
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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.
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I am ashamed of being a young rake, when my seniors are covering their gray toupees with helmets and feathers, and accoutering their pot-bellies with cuirasses and martial masquerade habits.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
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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.
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But the alleged $6 million asking price and, according to Mr. Chalfant, the toupeed one's global appeal, will probably necessitate what he referred to as "an investment in world rights by a multinational entity.
Big Fun in Frankfurt: King Jumps Viking's Ship
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Then he drew a second pear, exactly like the former, except that one or two lines were scrawled in the midst of it, which bore somehow a ludicrous resemblance to the eyes, nose, and mouth of a celebrated personage; and, lastly, he drew the exact portrait of Louis Philippe; the well-known toupet, the ample whiskers and jowl were there, neither extenuated nor set down in malice.
The Paris Sketch Book
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I see a world where in places of darkness, toupees and comb overs plot with the glass controller.
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So little of the fop; yet so elegant and rich in his dress: his person so specious: his air so intrepid: so much meaning and penetration in his face: so much gaiety, yet so little affectation; no mere toupet-man; but all manly; and his courage and wit, the one so known, the other so dreaded, you must think the petits-maîtres
Clarissa Harlowe
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When we last left our hero, he had survived a horrible snubbing by toupeed Priceline.com pitchman and former stock-holding billionaire WILLIAM FUCKING SHATNER, only to be verbally attacked by a disgruntled Star Trek fan.
WIL WHEATON dot NET: 1.5: September 2001 Archives
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But that doesn't mean we should pass laws banning soup kitchens, toupees, or jeans above a size eight.