toque

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If you'll take me in my toque K. said he'd take her in her toque, and waited with some anxiety, having not the faintest idea what a toque was.

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  1. noun A woman's small, brimless, close-fitting hat.
  2. noun A plumed velvet cap with a full crown and small rolled brim, worn in 16th-century France.

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  • A very small and expensive black toque was hideously unbecoming to the yellow, toad-like face beneath it. —  Murder on the Orient Express
  • If you'll take me in my toque K. said he'd take her in her toque, and waited with some anxiety, having not the faintest idea what a toque was. —  K
  • From a small Tuscan straw travelling-toque, the new maid, greatly wondering at such instructions, had extracted an old paste buckle and some violets, leaving it 'not fit to be seen.' —  The Convert
  • K. said he'd take her in her toque, and waited with some anxiety, having not the faintest idea what a toque was. —  K
  • "As long as I have you." —  The Man From High Mountain
 

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  1. French, from Spanish toca.

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  1. from French toque (=Spanish toca =Portuguese touca =Italian tocca), a hat, bonnet, prob. from Breton tok =W. toc, hat, bonnet.
 

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