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toque    Audio Help   [tohk] Pronunciation Key,
–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]
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toque    Audio Help   (tōk)  Pronunciation Key 
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.]

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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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toque

noun
1. a tall white hat with a pouched crown; worn by chefs 
2. a small round woman's hat [syn: pillbox

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Toque

Tuque\, n. [Canadian F. See Toque.] A kind of warm cap winter wear, made from a knit bag with closed tapered ends by pushing one end within the other, thus making a conical cap of double thickness.

Picturesque fellow with tuques, red sashes, and fur coats. --F. Remington.
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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.
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Toque

To*quet"\, n. See Toque, 1.
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