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

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.

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

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

Wog is right," I mused as I walked home—"postiche is everywhere.