tuque

American  

[took, tyook] / tuk, tyuk /

noun

1. a heavy stocking cap worn in Canada.

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tuque British  

/ tuːk /

noun

1. a knitted cap with a long tapering end

2. Also called: toque.  a close-fitting knitted hat often with a tassel or pompom

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Etymology

Origin of tuque

1870–75; < Canadian French, variant of French toque toque

Example Sentences

Buoy offered a friendly, arms-wide-open greeting, then deftly plucked the youth’s black tuque from his head and tossed it two seat rows behind him.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 28, 2022

And you can’t do that while staring through the Kraken-logo’d game sweater, tuque, earrings, belt and track pants of the fan in front of you.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 9, 2021

But Baptiste, waving his lines high in one hand, seizes his tuque with the other, whirls it above his head and flings it with a fiercer yell than ever at the bronchos.

From The Ontario High School Reader by Marty, A.E.

He pushed back the grey tuque with which his head had been covered, and without readdressing the Admiral, got up, slowly unwound the cords which bound the black box, and raised the lid.

From The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette by Lighthall, W. D. (William Douw)

I open de door, an' pass outside   For see mese'f how de night is look An' de star is commence for go couché   De mountain also is put on hees tuque.

From The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems by Drummond, William Henry