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toque

[tohk] Origin

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 especially in 16th-century France.

Origin:
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 is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
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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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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

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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