Toque

1957—Samuel Beckett, "Endgame", In a dressing-gown, a stiff toque on his head, a large blood-stained handkerchief over his face, a whistle hanging from his neck, a rug over his knees, thick socks on his feet, Hamm seems to be asleep.

Toques are for the most part indented in the mural style, in two rows, between which are placed marabout feathers. Flowers, feathers, ears of corn, in gold or silver: such are the chief ornaments on the heads of young ladies, either as separate decorations or all blended together. Black velvet toques are ornamented with marabout feathers of a light grey, mingled with a few ears of gold corn.

"Because Esmé said she was going out this afternoon to choose a new toque, and she hoped I should like it, and I’m not quite sure what it is, or where she'll wear it. Do you mind explaining?" "Not at all. A toque is that which if it had strings would be a bonnet, and if it had brim, would be a hat. It is worn on the head." "Thanks, now I know where I am," said the vicar of St. Machars, with a sigh of relief.

She drank a glass of wine mixed with water, took off her felt toque and her shoes, and slid beneath the red eiderdown.

Chef Felder was in her early forties, slender, with short wavy brown hair, almost all of which could be contained within her toque.

When I came to the back of a man's head, wearing a toque, I knew I'd spotted my quarry. "Chef Reynoso?"

Minutes later, a red-faced man in a chef's toque approached our table.

2007—October, Nicole Berrie, "Green Eggs and Sam", in Elle, page 360, Sam Mason first grabbed the spotlight as the pastry chef ... for being the most rock 'n' roll toque in town.