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Toque   Listen
noun
Toque  n.  
1.
A kind of cap worn in the 16th century, and copied in modern fashions; called also toquet. "His velvet toque stuck as airily as ever upon the side of his head."
2.
(Zool.) A variety of the bonnet monkey.





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"Toque" Quotes from Famous Books



... ejaculated, an exclamation called forth by the fact that the last person to alight from the bus was a slim young person in a trim, tailored, navy blue suit and a tiny black velvet toque whose air bespoke Paris, a person with eyes which were precisely the color of violets which grow ...
— Wild Wings - A Romance of Youth • Margaret Rebecca Piper
... one hand he carried a brown leather Gladstone bag. His companion was a lady, tall and erect, walking with a vigorous step which outpaced the gentleman beside her. She wore a long, fawn-coloured dust-cloak, a black, close-fitting toque, and a dark veil which concealed the greater part of her face. The two might very well have passed as father and daughter. They walked swiftly down the line of carriages, glancing in at the windows, until the ...
— Tales of Terror and Mystery • Arthur Conan Doyle
... known you were coming I would have borrowed a cap," she said. "Miss Tripp, third floor front, has a nice one. If you'll take me in my toque—" ...
— K • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... waist. Her figure was slender and slightly above the middle height. A distracting dimple dented the velvet of her right cheek, and above her small mouth and perfectly formed nose a pair of hazel eyes looked frankly out upon the world. Her oval face was surmounted by a dainty toque, from under which a vagrant tendril of hair had escaped. This blew about her ears, glistening like gold ...
— Doubloons—and the Girl • John Maxwell Forbes


Words linked to "Toque" :   lid, turban, woman's hat


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