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toque

to·que

UK/tuːk/ US/tjuːk/ uncommon informal

noun

1.

a tall white hat with a pouched crown; worn by chefs

2.

a small round woman''s hat

Origin

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”).

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