toque
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The final scene, in which Titus enters dressed as a chef, a cream puff of a toque jauntily placed on his head—he’s baked those unpalatable pies—retains its deranged tone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026
I don't care what some chef in a toque says about caramelizing onions; I want to hear the telephone cord cooking lowdown you'd warn your cousin about when she was making dinner.
From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2025
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
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
Wab pulled her over and squeezed her in tight so that her toque slipped down over her eyes to the bridge of her nose.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
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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
Outside, men chatted around a large metal wood-burning cooker with a stove pipe, two wearing chef’s toques.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 23, 2024
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 women wear small hats or toques and long crepe veils over their faces, so that their countenances may be hidden.
From Etiquette by Post, Emily
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This Week In Popular Culture: August 17–23, 2019
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