/tohk/ , n.
1. a brimless and close-fitting hat for women, in any of several shapes.
2. a velvet hat with a narrow, sometimes turned-up brim, a full crown, and usually a plume, worn by men and women esp. in 16th-century France.
3. tuque.
[ 1495-1505; toock, towk (
touca coif), tock, tocque ( tocca cap), toke ( toca headdress); ulterior orig. obscure ]