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toque.

toque (a brimless hat)

5 characters2 syllables approx.Français language

Meaning & usage

noun/tɔk/

  1. toque (a brimless hat)

    feminine

  2. a pillbox hat

    feminine

  3. a type of round brimless hat traditionally worn by certain professions in France, such as university professors or judges

    feminine · specifically

  4. toque (a chef's hat)

    feminine

  5. a chef

    broadly · feminine · informal

  6. skullcap (Scutellaria)

    feminine
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Middle French toque, tocque (“toque", also "a type of hairstyle”), in some senses from Spanish toca (“headdress”) and in other senses from Italian tocca, from Lombard toh, from Lombardic *tuoh, from Proto-West Germanic *dōk (“cloth”).

noun/tɔk/

  1. toque, a variety of bonnet monkey; toque macaque, Macaca sinica

    masculine
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Middle French toque, tocque (“toque", also "a type of hairstyle”), in some senses from Spanish toca (“headdress”) and in other senses from Italian tocca, from Lombard toh, from Lombardic *tuoh, from Proto-West Germanic *dōk (“cloth”).

verb/tɔk/

  1. inflection of toquer: first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

    first-person · form-of · indicative · present · singular · subjunctive · third-person

  2. inflection of toquer: second-person singular imperative

    form-of · imperative · second-person · singular
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Middle French toque, tocque (“toque", also "a type of hairstyle”), in some senses from Spanish toca (“headdress”) and in other senses from Italian tocca, from Lombard toh, from Lombardic *tuoh, from Proto-West Germanic *dōk (“cloth”).

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