toque (que as k), toquet

[Fr. a cap: Sp. toc a; Ital. tocca; Armor. tok; Wel. toc a hat or bonnet.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. A kind of bonnet or head-dre . "The policemen on duty, protected so far as their heads were concerned by solar toques ."-London Daily News. 2. A small nominal money of account used in trading on some parts of the west coast af Africa; forty cowries make one toque, and five toques one hen or galinha. ( Simmonds .) II. Zool .: The genus Macacus.