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toque

[tohk] ,
–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 esp. in 16th-century France.
3. tuque.

Origin:
1495–1505; < F; r. earlier toock, towk (< Pg touca coif), tock, tocque (< It tocca cap), toke (< Sp toca headdress); ulterior orig. obscure

tuque

[took, tyook]
–noun
a heavy stocking cap worn in Canada.
Also, toque.


Origin:
1870–75; < CanF, var. of F toque toque
toque   (tōk)   
n.  
  1. A woman's small, brimless, close-fitting hat.
  2. A plumed velvet cap with a full crown and small rolled brim, worn in 16th-century France.

[French, from Spanish toca.]

Toque

Toque\ (t[=o]k), n. [F. toque; of Celtic origin; cf. W. toc.]

1. A kind of cap worn in the 16th century, and copied in modern fashions; -- called also toquet.

His velvet toque stuck as airily as ever upon the side of his head. --Motley.

2. (Zo["o]l.) A variety of the bonnet monkey.
Language Translation for : toque
Spanish: toque,
German: der Schall,
Japanese: (笛の) 音

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."

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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