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means A small hairpiece worn to cover baldness, typically on the crown of the head rather than a full wig.

from Borrowed from French 'toupet,' meaning a tuft or lock of hair, itself likely from a Germanic root related to 'top.' It entered English in the 1700s, right alongside the era's enormous powdered wigs, as the word for the smaller, partial version — hair's modest cousin trying not to draw attention to itself.