Noun: toupet
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | toupet |
| Plural m | toupets |
Sample Sentences
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D’ailleurs, avec du toupet, un homme réussit toujours dans le monde. [1857, Gustave Flaubert, chapter 1, in Madame Bovary […], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères, first part, page 12:]
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Tu as vu qu'Emmeline a eu le toupet d'assister à la cérémonie. (You saw that Emmeline had the nerve to attend the ceremony.) [1894, Crafty, À travers Paris, page 37:]
Nouns inflected like toupet
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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. See: Dutch Nouns '
top', Old Norse Nouns '
toppr'.
Verbs referencing "toupet"
English Nouns
toupee, German Nouns
Toupet, Finnish Nouns
tupee, Dutch Nouns
toupet, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
tupé, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
tupé, Swedish Nouns
tupé, Catalan Nouns
tupè, Romanian Nouns
tupeu.
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