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toque
(təʊk, ‖ tɔk)
Forms: 6 toocke, tock, Sc. towk, 7, 9 tocque, 9 toque, (toke).
[a. F. toque (15th c. in Godef.), app. the same word as It. tocca cap, ‘tinzell cloath of Gold or siluer’ (Florio), Sp. toca a female head-dress, ‘toca or tocado, a womans kerchiefe or coife’ (Minsheu), Pg. touca a woman's coif. Ulterior origin uncertain.]
1. a. A kind of small cap or bonnet worn by men and women in various countries. (In quot. 1505, a large tippet.)
1505Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. III. 42 Item, for vij quartaris taffetj to be ane gret tepat to the King, callit ane towk. 1582N. Lichefield tr. Castanheda's Conq. E. Ind. i. ii. 29 The hayre of their heades is long lyke vnto womens, and pleited vnder theyr toockes, which they weare on theyr heades. 1599Hakluyt Voy. II. i. 244 On their heads they weare a small tock of three braces, made in guize of a myter, and some goe without tocks, and cary (as it were) a hiue on their heades. 1644Evelyn Diary 23 Nov., The Knight Gonfalonier and Prior of the R.R. in velvet tocques. 1823Scott Quentin D. vii, To confound our Scottish bonnets with these pilfering vagabonds' tocques and turbands, as they call them. 1864Babbage Passages Life Philos. 366 A kind of head-dress called a toke.
b. † A cushion or pad worn by women to raise up the hair (obs., quot. 1817); also, a kind of headdress (quot. 1835); after c 1880, a kind of bonnet, cap, or small hat without a projecting brim, or with a very small or closely turned-up brim.
1817M. Edgeworth Harrington xiii, A sort of triangular cushion, or edifice of horse hair..called I believe a toque or a system, was fastened on the female head.., and upon and over this system the hair was erected, and crisped, and frizzed [etc.]. 1835Ladies' Cabinet Jan. 68 Ball Dress... Head-dress a white satin toque, profusely trimmed with white ostrich feathers. Ibid. Mar. 202 The head-dress is a toque of pink terry velvet,..the brim very deep. 1837Thackeray Ravenswing iv, Her hats, toques,..marabouts, and other fallals. 1881M. E. Braddon Asph. xxvii, Her neat travelling-gown of darkest olive cashmere, and coquettish little olive-green toque. 1903N. & Q. 9th Ser. XI. 366/1 The term ‘bonnet’, as applied to the costume of ladies, may be taken to mean either bonnets or tocques, but not hats.
attrib.1844West. Daily Press 29 May 3/7 The toque hat is too comfortable, too convenient, and too becoming to be lightly laid aside.
c. Canad. = tuque.
1890S. M. St. Maur Impressions Tenderfoot 265 [He] was..made picturesque by a red cap ‘toque’, sash and red duffel overall stockings. 1906G. Lawrence Let. 20 Jan. in R. E. Watters Brit. Columbia (1958) 7 With his toque pulled down..he looked for all the world like one of the small gnomes we children used to see pictures of. 1945K. M. Haig Brave Harvest 170 They were matched by toques and mittens, and tied in with gay voyageur sashes streaming like banners against the snow. 1972Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 8 Dec. 10/4 He wore a woollen ski toque on his head. 1977Westworld (Vancouver, B.C.) Jan.—Feb. 44/2 A few other clothing essentials to remember are an extra pair of wool socks, some wool mitts, with a waterproof outer mitt, and a woolen toque.
d. A kind of tall white hat worn by chefs. In full toque blanche. orig. U.S.
[1965C. Klein Professional Cook ii. 28 The origin of the high white hat (la toque blanche) that has been the cook's trademark for centuries is in the monastery.] 1966McCall's June 168/4 The symposium ended with a discussion about the shape of the chef's hat, the toque blanche. 1975N.Y. Times 1 Nov. 18/1 The wearer of the toque blanche..is among a handful of women now presiding over restaurant kitchens here. 1977Guardian Weekly 9 Oct. 19/1 France's two super-gourmets..found only 21 restaurants worth a chef's toque, their mark of at least qualified approval. 1978R. Condon Bandicoot i. 2 His cook..was a man of great height, made taller still by the two-foot-high, fluted toque blanche he wore to ventilate his head. 1981Listener 17 & 24 Dec. 772/1 When the celebrated Swiss chef de cuisine..retired..he handed his toque to another Swiss.
2. toque monkey, also simply toque: the bonnet-monkey or bonnet-macaque, Macacus pileatus, a native of Ceylon (see bonnet n. 10).
1840Curvier's Anim. Kingd. 59 The Bonneted Macaque (Macacus sinicus) and the Toque (M. radiatus) have the hairs on the top of the head disposed as radii. 1882Ogilvie (Annandale), Toque..2. A name given to the bonnet-macaque. 1883List Anim. Zool. Soc. 16 Macacus pileatus (Shaw), Toque Monkey. 1892Pall Mall G. 28 Sept. 3/1 The Guinea baboons and the toque monkeys. |