{"id":17466,"date":"2019-02-06T13:32:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T13:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=17466"},"modified":"2019-02-06T13:32:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T13:32:28","slug":"put-on-your-tuque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=17466","title":{"rendered":"Put on your tuque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shinyredtype\/4393906192\/in\/photolist-8Mhogw-dtBXGH-dtBXMx-dtHxnb-dtHuyE-6KHHT1-UuBzt-bsHsyk-bdUcPx-dYd56e-yyHeK-a4ELWs-abcnA5-9d4Mc9-2kSQrW-poUL6Z-7vqZrB-3cnvWN-6WfH2-RFRyA-bJ45Yi-9c3QUy-9Aepc-7jw4Sg-4cA63U-38enip-4D2g9j-4cA63J-9c3MDo-bJ46jR-9bZL8i-yzsS9-5Uh31S-2e8K1k-29LhPM-5ohdCq-6WM3C-29LhNk-7ALWAa-yyHce-29LhN8-7GgVej-7V5hTt-dtHuuW-2G914-2G913-2G915-4eCTUe-QgzSuR-KyeLux\" title=\"Olympics tuque.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2713\/4393906192_d7937fd836_m.jpg\" style=\"float:right;\" alt=\"Olympics tuque.\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\"\/><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>One of the songs I heard last night at a gig featuring <a href=\"https:\/\/greywood-records.com\/gordie-tentrees\/\">Gordie Tentrees and Jaxon Haldane<\/a> included the line &#8220;put on your tuque&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This puzzled me as I didn&#8217;t know what a <strong>tuque<\/strong> was. From the context it seems to be some kind of clothing, and I guessed it might be a hat, but wasn&#8217;t sure, so thought I&#8217;d find out.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/tuque\">Free Dictionary<\/a>, <strong>tuque<\/strong> is a Canadian French word for &#8220;a close-fitting knitted or crocheted cap having no brim or a brim that is folded up to create an extra layer of fabric for warmth. Also called toque.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It comes from the French <em>toque<\/em>, which is &#8220;any of several styles of small, close-fitting hats having no brim or a very short brim&#8221;. Which comes from the Spanish <em>toca<\/em> (cornet, wimple, headress, toque, bonnet), from the Iberian Vulgar Latin <em>*tauca<\/em>, and is probably of pre-Roman Iberian origin.<\/p>\n<p>What do you call this kind of hat?<\/p>\n<p>You can see and hear Gordie Tentrees and Jaxon Haldane here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YUdu2BDJYEo\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the songs I heard last night at a gig featuring Gordie Tentrees and Jaxon Haldane included the line &#8220;put on your tuque&#8221;. This puzzled me as I didn&#8217;t know what a tuque was. From the context it seems to be some kind of clothing, and I guessed it might be a hat, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,111,10,15,64,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-language","category-latin","category-spanish","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}