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A knitted cap with ear flaps is often called a toboggan, or sherpa. [citation needed] The term toboggan is also sometimes used for knitted caps in Southern American English. [3] Members of the United States military commonly refer to a knitted cap as a watch cap, as it is the headgear worn while "standing watch" on a ship or guard post.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the etymology is uncertain, but probably derives from the slang term "bean", meaning "head".In New Zealand and Australia, the term "beanie" is normally applied to a knit cap known as a toque in Canada and parts of the US, but also may apply to the kind of skull cap historically worn by surf lifesavers [1] and still worn during surf sports. [2]
A toque (/ t oʊ k / [1] or / t ɒ k /) is a type of hat with a narrow brim or no brim at all. [2]Toques were popular from the 13th to the 16th century in Europe, especially France. They were revived in the 1930s; nowadays, they are primarily known as the traditional headgear for professional cooks, except in Canada, where the term toque is used interchangeably with the French Canadian ...
touque (also spelled toque or tuque): a knitted winter hat. A similar hat would be called a beanie in the western United States and a watch cap in the eastern United States, though these forms are generally closer-fitting, and may lack a brim as well as a pompom. There seems to be no exact equivalent outside Canada, since the tuque is of French ...
Statue of Burns wearing a tam o' shanter. The tam o' shanter is a flat bonnet, originally made of wool hand-knitted in one piece, stretched on a wooden disc to give the distinctive flat shape, and subsequently felted. [1]
Rastafarian in Barbados wearing a rastacap. The rastacap or tam is a tall (depending on the user's hair length), round, crocheted cap. It is most commonly associated with the pat [clarification needed] as a way for Rastafari (Rastas) and others with dreadlocks to tuck their hair away, but may be worn for religious reasons by Rastafari.
The principal characters were Beany, a plucky young boy who wears a beanie cap; the brave but dimwitted Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent, who claimed to be 300 years old and 35 ft 3 in (10.74 m) tall; another serpent named Common Dragon (named after Carmen Dragon, a famous conductor); Beany's uncle, Captain Horatio K. (for Kermit) Huff'n'puff (whose name is a play on Horatio Hornblower), who ...
A toboggan is a simple sled traditionally used by children. It is also a traditional form of transport used by the Innu and Cree of northern Canada. Illustration of a toboggan. In modern times, it is used on snow to carry one or more people (often children) down a hill or other slope for recreation.