as in wigs
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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wigs
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Sometimes prosthetics are required, or fake teeth, or horribly unflattering wigs.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
6 Sep. 2025 -
But also shirts, wigs, makeup, tumblers, Tumblrs, and hair accessories.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Hairpieces.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hairpieces. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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