toupet

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English

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Noun

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toupet (plural toupets)

  1. Archaic form of toupee.

Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French toupet.

Pronunciation

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  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: tou‧pet
  • IPA(key): /tupɛt/

Noun

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toupet m (plural toupetten or toupets, diminutive toupetje n)

  1. toupee
    • 1730, Jonathan Swift, “Death And Daphne,”, in Some Verse Pieces:
      From her own Head, Megwra takes
      A Perriwig of twisted Snakes;
      Which in the nicest Fashion curl'd,
      Like Toupets of this upper World []
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Synonyms

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French

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Etymology

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From Middle French toupet (small tuft of hair, forelock), from Old French toupet (small tuft of hair, forelock), diminutive of toupe, top (tuft of hair), from Frankish *topp (summit, crest, tuft of hair), from Proto-Germanic *tuppaz (summit, crest, tuft of hair). Cognate with Old Dutch topp (top) (Dutch top), Old Frisian top (summit, crest, tuft of hair), Old English top (summit, crest, tuft of hair), Old High German zopf (end, summit, tuft of hair), Old Norse toppr (tuft of hair, forelock). More at top.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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toupet m (plural toupets)

  1. tuft (of hair)
  2. toupee
  3. (colloquial) cheek, nerve
    Synonym: culot

Descendants

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  • Catalan: tupè
  • Danish: toupé
  • Dutch: toupet
  • English: toupee, toupet
  • German: Toupet
  • Italian: toupet
  • Norwegian Bokmål: tupé
  • Romanian: tupeu
  • Sicilian: tuppettu
  • Spanish: tupé

Further reading

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Italian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from French toupet.

Noun

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toupet m (invariable)

  1. toupee, hairpiece

Further reading

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  • toupet in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

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Middle French

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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toupet m (plural toupets)

  1. tuft of hair on the top of the head

Descendants

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  • French: toupet (see there for further descendants)

References

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  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (toupet, supplement)

Norman

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old French toupet.

Noun

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toupet m (plural toupets)

  1. (Jersey) tuft

Synonyms

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Old French

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Noun

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toupet oblique singularm (oblique plural toupez or toupetz, nominative singular toupez or toupetz, nominative plural toupet)

  1. tuft of hair on the top of the head

Descendants

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References

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  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (toupet, supplement)