tupé

Norwegian

noun

Definitions

a toupee small hairpiece worn to cover a bald spot

Etymology

Borrowed from French toupet (small tuft of hair, forelock, toupee, tuft of hair).

Origin

French

toupet

Gloss

small tuft of hair, forelock, toupee, tuft of hair

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Distribution of cognates by language

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Cognates and derived terms

toupee English
Toupet German
toupieren German
toupet Italian
toupet Dutch, Flemish
toupet French
tupé Norwegian Nynorsk
tupè Catalan, Valencian
toupet Middle French
*topp Frankish