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A small piece of false hair a man wears to cover a bald patch — usually the top or crown of the head, not the whole scalp. That is the key difference from a wig, which covers everything and which anyone might wear; a toupée is a patch, and is nearly always a man hiding hair loss. Because of that, the word carries a faint comic edge in English. There is a long tradition of jokes about toupées slipping, blowing off in the wind, or being obvious to everyone except the , so calling something a toupée can sound like teasing. If you want to be polite about it, people say , or in advertising hair system or hair replacement. English spells it toupée or toupee, both fine, and says it roughly "too-PAY". It is not a common word in daily talk — you meet it in jokes, in films, and in gossip about someone's hair looking different.
假髮片(男生用來遮禿頭那一小塊;整頂的叫假髮)
組成From French toupet, meaning a tuft or little lock of hair on the top of the head. English added the é spelling to keep the French-sounding ending.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。