toque

“He’d steal the toque off your head the second day, and the third day he’d steal your running shoes. He is not to be trusted whatsoever.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

After photographing birds and leopards, Hikkaduwa Liyanage Prasantha Vinod captured a young toque macaque peacefully sleeping in an adult's arms to highlight the challenges these monkeys face amid habitat loss and farmer conflicts.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2024

When I was nine, for instance, I received an Emeril Lagasse-branded miniature chef’s uniform, complete with a starchy white coat and toque.

From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2023

Indeed, their cable car scenes don’t measure up to Mount Rainier, elevation 14,410 feet, when it wears a fluffy toque.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 22, 2023

A tight-fitting little black coat and skirt, white satin blouse, small chic black toque perched at the fashionable outrageous angle.

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie

In North America, Arc’teryx was beloved in the outdoor-sporting community, but its jackets and beanie-like toques also had a following among “gorpcore” fashion aficionados.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 6, 2025

HAVERHILL, Mass. — The students all wore white chef coats, houndstooth pants and short toques as they tasted their lamb tagines for salt.

From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2022

Old-school service is alive and well at the Plaza: High tea treats are served in brass birdcages, tuxedo-clad bellman whisk away luggage to gilded suites, and chefs bear toques that tower above their heads.

From Time ● Aug. 16, 2017

The French heritage house looked to the 1950s for a collection of crisp, belted pantsuits and high-waisted shorts paired with jaunty toques and sensible sandals.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 25, 2010

The effect was terrible, for Regina’s toques were never things of beauty, and this one was less beautiful than most of her headgear.

From The Little Vanities of Mrs. Whittaker A Novel by John Strange Winter