toupeeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• toupe, toupée, toupet

語源

1727, from French toupet (“small tuft of hair, forelock”), 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”), 古期英語 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.

発音

• IPA: /tuːˈpeɪ/
• 韻: -eɪ

名詞

toupee (plural toupees)

1. A wig of false hair worn to cover a bald spot, especially as worn by a man.

   Synonym: hairpiece

   Near-synonym: hair system

   Coordinate term: hair topper

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.
   • 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss:

     Her powdered hair is turned backward over a toupee.

派生語

参照

• “toupee”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.