toupet
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toupet (plural toupets)
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toupet m (plural toupetten or toupets, diminutive toupetje n)
- 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 […]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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Etymology edit
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.
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toupet m (plural toupets)
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Further reading edit
- “toupet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from French toupet.
Noun edit
toupet m (invariable)
Further reading edit
- toupet in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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toupet m (plural toupets)
Descendants edit
- French: toupet (see there for further descendants)
References edit
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (toupet, supplement)
Norman edit
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Etymology edit
From Old French toupet.
Noun edit
toupet m (plural toupets)
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Old French edit
Noun edit
toupet oblique singular, m (oblique plural toupez or toupetz, nominative singular toupez or toupetz, nominative plural toupet)
Descendants edit
References edit
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (toupet, supplement)