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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



... of the discreet combining of gems and paste. It was at the Spring races, Longchamps, Paris. The decorative woman we have never forgotten, had marvellous gold-red hair, wore a costume of golden brown chiffon, a close toque (to show her hair) of brown; long topaz drops hung from her ears, set in hand-wrought Etruscan gold, and her shell lorgnettes hung from a topaz chain. Now note that on her toque and her girdle were buckles made of topaz glass, ...
— Woman as Decoration • Emily Burbank
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... you are wrong, Smartie," the girl laughed good-humoredly, making a mischievous grimace at him from beneath the brim of her saucy little toque of blue velvet. "I am not guilty of ...
— Steve and the Steam Engine • Sara Ware Bassett
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... 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
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... of rusty bronze is lined to show that she, too, has gone down a little into the vale of years. She was swathed in many skirts, her shoulders enveloped by a neutral-tinted shawl, and upon her head was a modist toque of light straw, garlanded with pink roses. This may have been her hunt constume, for the carcasses of two slain rabbits swung jauntily from her girdle. She undulated by us with no sign. Pete's glistening little eyes lingered in appraisal upon her noble rotundities and her dangling ...
— Somewhere in Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson
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... been seriously ill at one of the recent Magny's, although you do pretend to be a "woman of wood." Oh! no you are not of wood, dear good great heart! "Beloved old troubadour," would it not perhaps be opportune to rehabilitate him at the Theatre Almanzor? I can see him with his toque and his guitar and his apricot tunic howling at the black-gowned students from the top of a rock. The talk would be fine. Now, good night; I kiss you on both ...
— The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters • George Sand, Gustave Flaubert
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Words linked to "Toque" :   lid, turban, millinery, pillbox, hat, chapeau


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