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toque

n.
UK //tˈəʊk// toque Archaic Informal
Synonyms
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.

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