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noun
1.
a brimless and close-fitting hat for women, in any of several shapes.
2.
a velvet hat with a narrow, sometimes turned-up brim, a full crown, and usually a plume, worn by men and women especially in 16th-century France.
3.
Origin:
1495–1505; < French; replacing earlier toock, towk (< Portuguese touca coif), tock, tocque (< Italian tocca cap), toke (< Spanish toca headdress); ulterior origin obscure
1495–1505; < French; replacing earlier toock, towk (< Portuguese touca coif), tock, tocque (< Italian tocca cap), toke (< Spanish toca headdress); ulterior origin obscure
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Toque
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| toque (təʊk) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a woman's small round brimless hat, popular esp in Edwardian times |
| 2. | a hat with a small brim and a pouched crown, popular in the 16th century |
| 3. | (Canadian) same as tuque |
| 4. | a chef's tall white hat |
| [C16: from French, from Old Spanish toca headdress, probably from Basque tauka hat] | |
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Word Origin & History
toque
kind of round hat, 1505, from M.Fr. toque (15c.), from Sp. toca "woman's headdress," possibly from Arabic *taqa, from O.Pers. taq "veil, shawl."
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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toque
small, round, close-fitting hat, brimless or with a small brim, once worn by both men and women. In the 12th and 13th centuries, women wore embroidered toques, made of velvet, satin, or taffeta, on top of their head-veils.
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