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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  • She had on a green wool dress and toque, and a weasel-trimmed wrap rested n the back of her chair. —  Omni: February 1995
  • "The goal was to find a toque, a pair of gloves, a snowboard or a track," Jones said. —  Google News Canada - Top Stories
  • He was wearing gloves and a toque, and his jacket was zipped to the neck. —  Ottawa Sun
  • And the toque was not a hat, but a head cover from his set of golf clubs -- not something he would ever wear. —  Ottawa Sun
  • Instead, the man under the toque is Julien Jouhannaud, who has worked in a number of Ducasse's restaurants and most recently at The Harbour Grill at the Hilton Hotel in Singapore, where he won a silver medal at Asia's most recognized culinary competition, Food & Hotel Asia's Culinary Challenge. —  DCist
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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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