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 →

2) A toque is a tall white hat worn by chefs. tree →

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 →
• The chef wore a tall white toque. tree →
• My toque has a big red pompom. tree →
• In Canada, a toque is just a woolly hat. tree →
• I lost my toque at the hockey rink. tree →
• The pleats on a chef's toque used to show skill. tree →

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.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «toque» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.