postiche

Definitions


[pɒˈstiːʃ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a hairpiece


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Origin:
mid 19th century (originally as adjective with the sense ‘counterfeit, artificial’): from French, literally ‘false’, probably partly from Spanish postizo ‘artificial, false’, and partly from Italian posticcio ‘counterfeit, feigned’, both from late Latin appositicius, literally ‘placed beside’




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