postiche

1. 1.

   a covering or bunch of human or artificial hair used for disguise or adornment

   Synonymshairpiecefalse hair

   Broaderattire

   NarrowerAfro-wigswitchtoupeewig
2. 2.

   something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be

   Synonymsfakesham

   Broaderimitation

   Narrowerfake bookPotemkin village

Other forms of postiche

plural

postiches·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about postiche

What does postiche mean?

postiche means "a covering or bunch of human or artificial hair used for disguise or adornment". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in postiche?

postiche has 2 syllables: po-stiche. The stress falls on "po".

What is another word for postiche?

Close synonyms include hairpiece, false hair, fake, sham. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is postiche a common word?

postiche is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.