What's the difference between hairpiece and toupee?

Hairpiece


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Silicone-coated metal clips, suitably fashioned from .062'' Kirschner's wire, are then attached to the hairpiece.
  • (2) Moderate alopecia, necessitating use of a hairpiece, occurred in six patients; no signs or symptoms of neurotoxicity, ototoxicity, or nephrotoxicity were observed in any patient.
  • (3) This article describes these alternatives and lists the advantages and disadvantages of newer hairpieces, hair weaving, hair implants, strip grafting, and hair transplantation.
  • (4) Harry Crane's cravat, hairpiece and comedy specs aren't a million miles away from what Austin Powers wears in Goldmember – perfect for a character who always tries that little bit too hard.
  • (5) For a start, there is the imagery of legal wigs that satirists have been having fun with ever since Hogarth depicted a row of slumbering judges in their heavy hairpieces in 1758 .
  • (6) A new procedure for attaching a hairpiece to the scalp is described.
  • (7) Hairpieces and hair transplantation are my preferred methods for most patients.
  • (8) For those with burn alopecia of more than 60 percent of the scalp surface, no surgical treatment was effective; the women would often cover their scalps with hairpieces, but the men in our series preferred not to do so.
  • (9) The office procedure of creating tunnel grafts for attachment of hairpieces is not without complications.
  • (10) Any observer would say the patient is wearing a "hairpiece" or some other artificial element.
  • (11) The metal clips are inserted into the skin-lined tunnels and thereby anchor the hairpiece to the scalp.
  • (12) The most expensive thing we sold was an octopus I made with a bit of help from Tracey – she stuck a hairpiece on it.

Toupee


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Toupet

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With no particular career ambitions, he took a part-time MBA at Manchester University while working for a family friend in a wholesale wig and toupee business.
  • (2) It would be like having a bad toupee; they wouldn't listen."
  • (3) He had a similar, but slightly louder relationship with the toupee-wearing American broadcaster Howard Cosell, who sometimes let his ego dip to accommodate Ali at his most rampant in post-fight interviews.
  • (4) You can criticise him all you like for being a racist, a sexist, a sexual predator, a homophobe, a xenophobe, a conspiracy theorist, a bully, or a bad advert for male grooming, but it’s all water off a duck’s back – you could even say that duck is sitting on Trump’s head pretending to be a toupee – it doesn’t matter.

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