But come, never mind it — You are belied, Mr. Osbaldistone, unless you have much better conversation than these fadeurs, which every gentleman with a toupet thinks himself obliged to recite to an unfortunate girl, merely because she is dressed in silk and gauze, while he wears superfine cloth with embroidery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rob Roy] Reference

So little of the fop; yet so elegant and rich in his dress: his person so specious: his air so intrepid: so much meaning and penetration in his face: so much gaiety, yet so little affectation; no mere toupet-man; but all manly; and his courage and wit, the one so known, the other so dreaded, you must think the petits-maîtres.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

I left the young gentlemen of France with their hair brushed en toupet in front, and the toes of their boots round; now the boot-toes are pointed, and the hair combed flat, and, parted in the middle, falls in ringlets on the fashionable shoulders; and, in like manner, with books as with boots, the fashion has changed considerably, and it is not a little curious to contrast the old modes with the new.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Paris Sketch Book] Reference

On the journey they wanted her to curl her toupet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters of Horace Walpole 01]

"Old cheat!" thought Suzanne, doing as he told her, "I'll tell about your false toupet.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jealousies of a Country Town] Reference

Her dress and her toupet were black, relieved by silver sequins and a silver mounted tiara.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tragic Bride] Reference

And the enamored, if usurping, duke wept bitterly and tore his hair to such an extent he totally destroyed his best toupet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Certain Hour] Reference

Gregory did the taper when he fulminated an excommunication; Suzanne then learned for the first time that du Bousquier wore a toupet covering his bald spot.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jealousies of a Country Town] Reference

Another thing which, in conjunction with this and his youth-giving studies, made him feel younger than ever was the discreet arrival and perfect success of his toupet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Queen Lucia] Reference

Verbs include: to grouse or gripe = rouspéter or râler to have some nerve = avoir du culot or avoir de toupet to be in a bad mood = tre de mauvais poil, tre mal vissé, or tre mal luné.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference

On the road they wanted to curl her toupet; she said she thought it looked as well as that of any of the ladies sent to fetch her; if the King bid her, she would wear a periwig, otherwise she would remain as she was.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3] Reference

He had ordered a toupet, he had been looked on with favour by a Guru, all Riseholme knew that he had had quite a long conversation with Lady Ambermere and nobody in Riseholme, except himself, knew that Olga Bracely was going to spend two nights here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Queen Lucia] Reference

But come, never mind it --- You are belied, Mr. Osbaldistone, unless you have much better conversation than these fadeurs, which every gentleman with a toupet thinks himself obliged to recite to an unfortunate girl, merely because she is dressed in silk and gauze, while he wears superfine cloth with embroidery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rob Roy] Reference

France with their hair brushed en toupet in front, and the toes of their boots round; now the boot-toes are pointed, and the hair combed flat, and, parted in the middle, falls in ringlets on the fashionable shoulders; and, in like manner, with books as with boots, the fashion has changed considerably, and it is not a little curious to contrast the old modes with the new.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Paris Sketch Book] Reference

Then he drew a second pear, exactly like the former, except that one or two lines were scrawled in the midst of it, which bore somehow a ludicrous resemblance to the eyes, nose, and mouth of a celebrated personage; and, lastly, he drew the exact portrait of Louis Philippe; the well-known toupet, the ample whiskers and jowl were there, neither extenuated nor set down in malice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Paris Sketch Book] Reference

A buttery face, a toupet on his bald spot, gold earrings, which were always in difficulty with his shirt-collar, had the hobby of pomology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sons of the Soil] Reference

Holroyd's, in order that that artist might accurately match the shade of his hair with a view to the expensive toupet), but the mention of the arrival of the Mozart now decided him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Queen Lucia] Reference

Do you think he wears a toupet?.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Novel — Complete] Reference

And the toupet, so exquisitely dressed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions] Reference