Illustration: Backstage at a community theater, an adult performer sits before a dressing mirror wearing a close-fitting wig cap. A dresser holds a full, curly wig just above the performer's head, with its hollow inner mesh clearly visible along the lifted edge.

かつら

katsura

wig, hairpiece

Example sentences

トムは昔むかし、かつらをつけていた。
Tom used to wear a wig.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
ここだけの話はなしだけど、田中部長たなかぶちょう、実じつはカツラなんだって。
Don’t tell anybody else, but director Tanaka wears a wig.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
芸妓げいぎの場合ばあいは本物ほんものも鬘かつら。
A real geiko also uses a wig.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

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