Crossword-Solution: POSTICHE 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 15

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

Her own, at the best, is skimpy and straight, though very much my colour, and what with permanent waving and instantaneous hair colouring it was positively dwindling away." "I wish you had let it dwindle." "No, I rather like her--so I suggested she should give her own poor locks a rest and have an artistic _postiche_ made with mine; it made two, one to come and one to go--to the hairdresser.

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.

There is no intellectual deficiency which is not also at the same time a moral blemish; and a course of exercises, such as we have considered, not only jeopardises the formation of the intelligence by urging it along a line of false and empty artificiality to the postiche and the appliqué, but it also, and far more seriously, threatens the moral character of the pupils in that it beguiles them into a sinful familiarity with insincerity, which might perhaps become downright cheating.

The word “tuft” may be applied to almost any small piece of _postiche_ hair, whether it be upon a comb or a hair-pin, as “pin-curls” are made.