postiche

Today, polite society most often softens references to wigs with such euphemisms as “hair covering” or “hairpiece,” eschewing the historic terms “toupee” and “postiche.”

"No," said Lady Catchpole; "anything false which is well made up we call a postiche; it need not be exactly a wig."

Fastidiousness, at any rate, is very good postiche for modesty: it is always decent, it can never be coarse.

We have made a great succ�s by means of postiche—there is no denying it.

Now in this case, for instance, he is using convictions—postiche convictions certainly—to get Bodwinkle into Parliament; the result of my convictions is, that if I express them they will turn me out.