toque

toque

a small, plumed hat worn by men and women in the 16th cent.
a woman's small, round, closefitting, usually brimless hat
a traditional, white chef's hat, typically tall or with a baggy crown
Cdn. a knitted winter cap

Origin of toque

Fr, a cap from Spanish toca from Basque tauka, kind of cap

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toque

noun

Any of several styles of small, close-fitting hats having no brim or a very short brim, especially:
a. A usually black, velvet cap with a narrow, rolled brim and often an ornamental plume, worn especially in France in the 16th century.
b. See tuque.
A hat, usually white, having a tall pleated crown and no brim and traditionally worn by chefs.

Origin of toque

French from Spanish toca

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Noun

(plural toques)

A type of hat with no brim.
(specifically) A tall white hat with no brim of the sort worn by chefs
(by extension, informal) A chef.
A variety of bonnet monkey; toque macaque, Macaca sinica.

Origin

Circa 1500. From Spanish toca (“woman's dress") and/or Italian tocca (“toque"); possibly from Arabic Ø·Ø§Ù‚ (tÄq, “layer, stratum"), from Old Persian taq (“veil, shawl").

Noun

(plural toques)

(Canada) A knitted hat, usually conical but of varying shape, often woollen, and sometimes topped by a pom-pom or tassel.

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1871. Assimilated from Canadian French tuque.

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