Lexicographical Neighbors of Toupets
Literary usage of Toupets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... Megaera takes A periwig of twisted snakes; Which in the nicest fashion
curl'd (Like toupets of this upper world), With flour of sulphur powder'd well. ..."
2. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1897)
"... black, oily, and redundant ; some have toupets in the famous Louis-Philippe
fashion : some are cropped close; some have adopted the present mode—which ..."
3. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"... they are scented across the street ; some have straight locks, block, oily,
and redundant ; some have toupets in the famous Louis-Philippe fashion; ..."
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