What does "toque" mean?
A type of hat with no brim.
Toque
/toʊk/ noun, slang
noun, slang ·Moderate ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A type of hat with no brim.
- Grammar: toque is listed as noun, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: academic cap, beanie, chef hat, chef's hat.
- Useful contrasts: bare head, hatless head, no hat.
- Usage evidence: She wore a small bright green toque over her black bobbed hair.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A type of hat with no brim.
"Toques are for the most part indented in the mural style, in two rows, between which are placed marabout feathers. Flowers, feathers, ears of corn, in gold or silver: such are the chief ornaments on the heads of young ladies, either as separate decorations or all blended together. Black velvet toques are ornamented with marabout feathers of a light grey, mingled with a few ears of gold corn."
- 2 A knitted hat, usually conical but of varying shape, often woollen, and sometimes topped by a pom-pom or tassel. Canada
"Such is the demented nature of the universe that I was too weak to properly respond to my being hit on by carloads of Betties and Veronicas—all except for the cheeky Cheryl Anderson who gave me ‘manual release’ the day I lost my eyebrows, followed by a flood of tears and the snapping of Polaroids in which I wear a knit toque. Gush gush."
- 3 A rhythm used in Latin music, especially Cuban religious rituals. countable, uncountable
- 4 a small round woman's hat wordnet
- 5 A tall white hat with no brim of the sort worn by chefs specifically
"Chef Felder was in her early forties, slender, with short wavy brown hair, almost all of which could be contained within her toque."
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- 6 The guitar part of flamenco music. countable, uncountable
- 7 a tall white hat with a pouched crown; worn by chefs wordnet
- 8 A chef. broadly, informal
"2007—October, Nicole Berrie, "Green Eggs and Sam", in Elle, page 360, Sam Mason first grabbed the spotlight as the pastry chef ... for being the most rock 'n' roll toque in town."
- 9 A variety of bonnet monkey; toque macaque, Macaca sinica.
- 10 An African nominal money of account, equal to 40 cowries. historical
Synonyms
All synonymsAntonyms
bare headhatless headno hat
Example
"She wore a small bright green toque over her black bobbed hair."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "toque"?
Common synonyms include: academic cap, beanie, chef hat, chef's hat, cook hat, foreskin.
How do you use "toque" in a sentence?
She wore a small bright green toque over her black bobbed hair.
How do you pronounce "toque"?
Pronounced /toʊk/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle French toque (“toque”), from Arabic طَاقِيَّة (ṭāqiyya).
Etymology 2
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”).
Etymology 3
From Spanish toque.