POSTICHE

PRONUNCIATION: (poh-STEESH)

MEANING: noun:
1. A hairpiece.
2. An imitation or sham.

ETYMOLOGY: From French postiche (hairpiece, fake), from Italian posticcio (counterfeit), from Latin appositus, past participle of apponere (to put near), from ponere (to put). Ultimately from the Indo-European root apo- (off or away), that also gave us after, off, awkward, post, puny, aphelion, apheresis, apograph, apopemptic, apophasis, and aposematic. Earliest documented use: 1854.
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POST-RICHE - a member of the bourgeoisie whose money is all gone

ÖSTICHE - Austrian citizen (female)

POSTICLE - frozen dessert fence-picket-on-a-stick