toque

[tohk]

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noun

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.

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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Related Words for toque

helmet, hat, turban, tiara, cap, crown, bonnet, coronet, hood, coiffure, biretta, toque, busby, miter, bandore

Examples from the Web for toque

Historical Examples of toque

She did not notice the mishap to the toque and left it where it had fallen.
Joan of Arc of the North Woods
Holman Day
Its shape, however, was not that of the toque of our milliners.
A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama 1497-1499
Unknown
Of these the most marked features are the rolled-up cap or toque and the short coat.
The Ceramic Art
Jennie J. Young
The one in the toque gave the one with the bird of paradise a slight push.
To Tell You the Truth
Leonard Merrick
She was wearing her black dress and the toque with the high feather.
Command
William McFee

British Dictionary definitions for toque

toque

noun

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

Word Origin for toque

C16: from French, from Old Spanish toca headdress, probably from Basque tauka hat

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Word Origin and History for toque

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."