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

Each head was adorned with a tuque made from black and red broadcloth, with beaded or braided band around the head.

From Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador by Hubbard, Mina Benson

Pisonis comites, cohors inanis Aptis sarcinulis et expeditis, Verani optime tuque mi Fabulle, Quid rerum geritis? satisne cum isto 5Vappa frigoraque et famem tulistis?

From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

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

From Black Rock: a Tale of the Selkirks by Connor, Ralph