toque
A type of hat with no brimA type of hat with no brim.
» She wore a small bright green toque over her black bobbed hair.
Meaning
8 sensesA type of hat with no brim.
токtok
a small round woman's hat
(specifically)A tall white hat with no brim of the sort worn by chefs.
Kochmütze
колпа́кkolpák, поварско́й колпа́кpovarskój kolpák
a tall white hat with a pouched crown; worn by chefs
(broadly, informal)A chef.
2007—October, Nicole Berrie, "Green Eggs and Sam", in Elle, page 360, Sam Mason first grabbed the spotlight as the pastry chef ... for being the most rock 'n' roll toque in town.
A variety of bonnet monkey; toque macaque, Macaca sinica.
цейло́нский мака́кcejlónskij makák
(historical)An African nominal money of account, equal to 40 cowries.
(Canada)A knitted hat, usually conical but of varying shape, often woollen, and sometimes topped by a pom-pom or tassel.
(countable, uncountable)A rhythm used in Latin music, especially Cuban religious rituals.
(countable, uncountable)The guitar part of flamenco music.
Examples
2 sentencesShe wore a small bright green toque over her black bobbed hair.
She was in the park, chatting to her friends, and wearing a green toque and her famous pearls.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle French toque (“toque”), from Arabic طَاقِيَّة (ṭāqiyya). 1871. Assimilated frFrom Middle French toque (“toque”), from Arabic طَاقِيَّة (ṭāqiyya).
1871. Assimilated from Canadian French tuque. Likely to be a hypercorrection from the time that toque was already in the dictionaries when they did not yet list tuque as a kind of hat. The French word tuque for hat is itself not strictly a deformation of French toque: it is also related to other meanings of tuque and to its former name bonnet à la turque (literally “Turkish-style bunnet/cap”).
Borrowed from Spanish toque.
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