toupet

toupet (plural toupets)

1. Archaic form of toupee.

Borrowed from French toupet.

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

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 […]

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• haarstuk

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.

• IPA^(key): /tu.pɛ/

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toupet m (plural toupets)

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

   Synonym: culot

   • 1894, Crafty, À travers Paris, page 37:

     Tu as vu qu'Emmeline a eu le toupet d'assister à la cérémonie.

     You saw that Emmeline had the nerve to attend the ceremony.

• “toupet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Unadapted borrowing from French toupet.

toupet m (invariable)

1. toupee, hairpiece

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

• potute

• topet

toupet m (plural toupets)

1. tuft of hair on the top of the head

• French: toupet (see there for further descendants)

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (toupet, supplement)

• tupé

From Old French toupet.

toupet m (plural toupets)

1. (Jersey) tuft

• tun
• tus

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

1. tuft of hair on the top of the head

• → Old Galician-Portuguese: topete
  • Galician: topete
  • Portuguese: topete

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (toupet, supplement)