postiche

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I have a fragment of their plaster postiche copying the close-grained Egyptian granite; the oily lustre of the quartz is so fresh and the peculiar structure of the rock, with its mica scintillations, so admirably rendered as to deceive, after two thousand years, the eye of a trained mineralogist.]

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  1. noun Something false; a sham.
  2. noun A small hairpiece; a toupee.

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  • Fastidiousness, at any rate, is very good _postiche_ for modesty: it is always decent, it can never be coarse. —  Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida
  • I have a fragment of their plaster postiche copying the close-grained Egyptian granite; the oily lustre of the quartz is so fresh and the peculiar structure of the rock, with its mica scintillations, so admirably rendered as to deceive, after two thousand years, the eye of a trained mineralogist.] —  Old Calabria
  • You men wear your hats on your heads, and can easily get them straight; we don't, we wear them on our hair, or our scalpettes, or our transformations, or on any _postiche_ that may be fashionable or necessary, and can only tell whether they are straight, or even the right way round, by means of a looking-glass. —  Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"
 

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  1. French, from Italian posticcio, from posto, added (from Latin positus, past participle of pōnere, to place) or from Vulgar Latin *appostīcius (alteration of Latin appositus, past participle of appōnere, to place by, to add : ad-, ad- + pōnere, to place; see apo- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. from French postiche = Spanish postizo = Portuguese postiço, from Italian posticcio, superadded, for apposticcio, appositiccio, from Latin appositus, past participle of apponere, superadd, put beside, from ad, to, + ponere, place: see position. Cf. apposite.
 

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