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toque

[tohk] / toʊk /


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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

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

Other pieces in the collection, which ranges from $275 to $1,350, are a toque, reversible fleece jacket and reversible vest.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 14, 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

A very small expensive black toque was hideously unbecoming to the yellow, toad-like face beneath it.

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

They’re too modest — and too friendly with professionally trained toques who might bristle at bartenders who adopt the title of “chef.”

From Washington Post Nov. 5, 2018

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

For example, it spared Sally Warner, with her spotted veils drawn close around her face, her red belts, and her red tufts on her small toques, but it blasted the Morrells.

From The Gray Dawn by Stewart Edward White




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