How to Use toque in a Sentence

toque

noun
Definition of toquenext
Synonyms for toquenext
  • Trotman is keeping the recipe close to his toque for now.
    — Baroness Sheri De Borchgrave, Robb Report, 19 Mar. 2023
  • Made of a wool/acrylic blend this toque feels soft against the skin and wicks moisture to keep them warm and dry.
    — Danny Perez, Popular Mechanics, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Instead, the weather calls for a toque and wool socks, a sweatshirt, and a down jacket.
    — Scott Nover, Quartz, 20 July 2022
  • This excepts the sort where staffers in toques prepare crab omelets to order and the champagne flows freely.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 2 Oct. 2019
  • In place of a toque, Mr. Caballero’s head is covered by a Panama-style hat with a wide, flat brim.
    — Pete Wells, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2020
  • Cerny has been the top toque at Pistache since 2011, and has been finessing his bisque recipe for even longer.
    — Claire Perez, Sun-Sentinel.com, 4 May 2018
  • Yet on any given night, chances are Wilmot will be in the kitchen in her tall white toque, long black braids hanging down her back.
    — Amanda Shapiro, Bon Appetit, 1 Mar. 2018
  • The dog’s head, topped with a chef’s toque, is featured right there in the logo for Ramona’s Pizza Garden.
    — Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2022
  • The chef, with a formidable toque atop his head, gave the VIP treatment to the distinguished host of a table for six.
    — Laurie Ochoa, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2022
  • The top toque as judged by event attendees will receive a trophy and cash prize for their efforts.
    — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Sep. 2021
  • The woman in the fur toque bustled by with her housekeeper, weighed down with a shopping bag full of flowery linens.
    — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2018
  • There’s a Pepsi machine and a roast station, where a chef in a white coat and an unreasonably tall toque smiles at me.
    — James Lynch, Popular Mechanics, 9 Feb. 2018
  • The days of the dish-throwing, mercurial drill sergeant in a tall white toque are, thankfully, coming to an end.
    — Mark Kurlyandchik, Freep.com, 11 Feb. 2020
  • He and 12-year-old daughter Adelaide, youngest of his and Leah’s three children (the oldest, Grayson, is 22), would grab their toques and sticks, and skate for hours unbothered.
    — Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 28 May 2018
  • The restaurant name is a tip of the toque to another part of Lachowicz's past — his grandfather and uncle, both Georges.
    — Phil Vettel, chicagotribune.com, 12 May 2017
  • Torontonians in puffer vests and toques describe a vibrant city bursting at the seams.
    — Molly Sauter, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Imbert has a big toque to fill, as food critic Thibaut Danancher suggests, given the legacy the restaurant leaves on the Parisian landscape.
    — Vivian Song, Robb Report, 28 June 2021
  • With green hair to boot, Mr. Bowien had put a lot of distance between himself and his whites-and-toque-wearing predecessors.
    — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Favel was wearing a green toque and black-rimmed eyeglasses when last seen, according to the statement.
    — Hollie Silverman, CNN, 5 Oct. 2019
  • The hats, such as the Cook’s voluminous toque and the Duchess’ and Queen of Heart’s headwear, are particularly special.
    — Mark Lowry, star-telegram.com, 24 May 2017
  • The guide highlighted restaurants adhering to the commandments with red rather than black toques.
    — William Grimes, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2017
  • In the video, a team of chefs wearing toque blanches covered her in flour and vegetables, placed her on a cutting board and then dropped into a pot of boiling water.
    — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 17 May 2017
  • Highly visible in the restaurant under a formal, tall toque, McPhail also took his job far outside the kitchen.
    — Ian McNulty | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 12 Oct. 2020
  • Chefs from southwest Riverside County and beyond will don their toques blanche (the iconic tall, white hats). and prepare to duel for the hearts and the taste buds of attendees and celebrity judges.
    — Nicole Miller-Coleman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 20 Aug. 2017
  • The ruler—who died in exile, in 1997—appears in one image in a framed illustration, his lips parted, as if still about to speak, the leopard-print toque for which he was known perched high on his head like a crown.
    — Katie Ryder, The New Yorker, 4 May 2017
  • Made with only polar fleece, this simple toque has a retro, pyramid-esque shape that’s reminiscent of my dad’s old hats from the eighties, with a nine-inch peak and two-and-a-half inch cuff.
    — Kelly Klein, Outside Online, 18 Oct. 2022
  • One 2020 photo shows the justice and Mr. Sokol standing behind a barbecue grill, wearing matching white chef’s toques.
    — Steve Eder, New York Times, 9 July 2023
  • Her restaurant rival: a handsome young grill man (Harry Shum Jr.) with a suspicious raccoon tail sticking out from beneath his chef’s toque.
    — Vulture, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Made with triple layers of merino wool, this toque even comes with internal pockets that can retain heat to keep your head completely snug even in the most demanding climate.
    — Maverick Li, Men's Health, 5 Jan. 2023
  • The husband-and-wife team participated in the festival for the first time last year and won the Best Tamale trophy, which features a chef wearing a toque and holding a knife in one hand and a fish in another — but no tamales in sight.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2021

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