tuque Canadian.
(tjuːk, tyk)
[a. Canadian Fr., f. F. toque, toque.]
A knitted stocking-cap tapered and closed at both ends, one end being tucked into the other to form the cap; formerly the characteristic winter head-dress of the Canadian ‘habitant’; now chiefly worn as part of a toboggan or snow-shoe club costume.
| 1871 W. G. Beers in Scribner's Monthly Sept. 454/2 The snow-shoe clubs have adopted the tuque. 1887 Cornh. Mag. Mar. 267 The real head-dress of the snowshoer being the knitted woollen tuque, a bag-shaped cap,..suggesting..the headgear of the Royal Artillery. 1894 Outing (U.S.) XXIII. 358 The Snow Shoer's Song. Tighten the tuque, and girdle the sash, Lads and lasses, the snow shoes lash. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 23 Feb. 8/3 Their uniforms were blanket costumes, with tuques, mocassins and snowshoes. |