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Word: Postiche
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
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’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
pɒˈstiːʃ
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a hairpiece.
Short Definition:hairpiece
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