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  • noun Plural form of tuque.

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Examples

  • I grew up in Calgary, where winters were definedby snow and snowsuits, giant mitts and yes, that Canadian thing, tuques.

    Hated Winter: From Snow to Rainforest « Colleen Anderson 2010

  • A sunny day with temperatures in the 40s will find Saabophiles motoring happily along with the wind in their woollies and tuques, presumably with heated seats and capable Swedish heaters cranked all the way up.

    Saab convertible drivers weather the storm, top down 2009

  • Canada clinched its spot after winning the final match against Honduras 2-1 in St. John's, Newfoundland, with the Hondurans wearing tuques and gloves on the field due to the cold weather.

    Canada World Cup 1986 Azmie aka switch image 2007

  • Canada clinched its spot after winning the final match against Honduras 2-1 in St. John's, Newfoundland, with the Hondurans wearing tuques and gloves on the field due to the cold weather.

    Archive 2007-09-01 Azmie aka switch image 2007

  • A sunny day with temperatures in the 40s will find Saabophiles motoring happily along with the wind in their woollies and tuques, presumably with heated seats and capable Swedish heaters cranked all the way up.

    Saab convertible drivers weather the storm, top down 2009

  • The tuques and scarves don't change road conditions.

    a blurb for bicycle errands 2007

  • We bought matching tuques that clearly stated our place of visit (yeah, un hun, we're geeks).

    Wine and Cheese wakko101 2002

  • "To wear these badges and shout for him," replied Jude, displaying the contents of his parcel, a couple of dozen red woollen tuques.

    The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette William Douw Lighthall

  • There were miners in dark clothes and peak caps; citizens in ordinary garb; ranch-men in wide cowboy hats and buckskin shirts and leggings, some with cartridge-belts and pistols; a few half-breeds and Indians in half-native, half-civilized dress; and scattering through the crowd, the lumbermen with gay scarlet and blue blanket coats, and some with knitted tuques of the same colour.

    The Ontario High School Reader A.E. Marty

  • A platoon going into the trenches looks more like a gang of railway labourerssome with Balaklava helmets, some with tuques, some with waterproof sheets about their shoulders, some wearing rubber boots, some wearing Strathconas, some wheeling barrows and others carrying bundles over their shoulders.

    With Canada at the Front 1916

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