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# toque

«toque» in Mova's school dictionary: **a knitted winter hat, often with a bobble on top; a beanie** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a toque, toques) (Canada); noun (a toque — chef's hat)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (Canada) A toque (also tuque) is a knitted winter hat, often with a bobble on top; a beanie. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toque/#m1)

2) A toque is a tall white hat worn by chefs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toque/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In Canada, everyone says «toque» for a winter hat; in the UK «bobble hat» or «beanie», in Australia «beanie». In cooking stories, the head chef wears a tall white toque.

### examples

- Put your toque on, it's freezing outside! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toque/#x1)
- The chef wore a tall white toque. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toque/#x2)
- My toque has a big red pompom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toque/#x3)
- In Canada, a toque is just a woolly hat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toque/#x4)
- I lost my toque at the hockey rink. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toque/#x5)
- The pleats on a chef's toque used to show skill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toque/#x6)

### note

Pronounced «took» (Canada). Mainly Canadian English for the winter hat.

### In the corpora

- [Connor looks both up: a toque is a woolly hat, a double-double is coffee with two creams and two sugars.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/463-the-best-friend-who-moves-away/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «toque» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toque/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.