postiche

Example Sentences

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

From Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida by Ouida

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

From Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography by Oliphant, Laurence

Ah, the taunts we shall have to endure when the postiche is discovered, from the rivals that have always been jealous and are still under the prestige of our former charms!

From Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography by Oliphant, Laurence