toque
[tohk]
- a brimless and close-fitting hat for women, in any of several shapes.
- a velvet hat with a narrow, sometimes turned-up brim, a full crown, and usually a plume, worn by men and women especially in 16th-century France.
- tuque.
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Origin of toque
1495–1505; < French; replacing earlier toock, towk (< Portuguese touca coif), tock, tocque (< Italian tocca cap), toke (< Spanish toca headdress); ulterior origin obscure
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Examples from the Web for toque
Historical Examples
She did not notice the mishap to the toque and left it where it had fallen.
Joan of Arc of the North WoodsHolman Day
Its shape, however, was not that of the toque of our milliners.
Of these the most marked features are the rolled-up cap or toque and the short coat.
The Ceramic ArtJennie J. Young
The one in the toque gave the one with the bird of paradise a slight push.
To Tell You the TruthLeonard Merrick
She was wearing her black dress and the toque with the high feather.
CommandWilliam McFee
toque
- a woman's small round brimless hat, popular esp in Edwardian times
- a hat with a small brim and a pouched crown, popular in the 16th century
- Canadian same as tuque (def. 2)
- a chef's tall white hat
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Word Origin
C16: from French, from Old Spanish toca headdress, probably from Basque tauka hat
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Word Origin and History for toque
n.
kind of round hat, c.1500, from Middle French toque (15c.), from Spanish toca "woman's headdress," possibly from Arabic *taqa, from Old Persian taq "veil, shawl."
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