a headpiece made of natural or synthetic hair usually worn to cover a bald area
if no one had told me he wore a hairpiece, I would have thought his hair was his own
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Recent Examples of hairpieceEvery piece, from jewelry to gloves, to custom hairpieces, is carefully considered as a means to elevate the look.—Laia Farran Graves, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025 Wearing a wig or hairpiece can protect your scalp and ears from the cold.7
8.—Carrie Madormo, Rn, Health, 30 Apr. 2025 But the process of creating the hairpieces, dearest gentle readers, is more laborious than Lady Whistledown’s efforts to conceal her identity from the Ton.—Jessica Wang, EW.com, 28 Mar. 2025 These hairpieces add volume, length, or a different texture.—Patty Weasler, Rn, Verywell Health, 28 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hairpiece
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hairpiece
wig
Noun
More than 30 years after road-tripping in wigs across the Outback together, Guy Pearce is paying tribute to the late Terence Stamp.
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Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
17 Aug. 2025
In that video, the beluga whale grabbed the woman’s head in its mouth and removed her wig.
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