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bonnet bleu Cdn French 
a blue, tasselled tuque, traditional wear among rural French Canadians.
See also: tuque
- 1849 The men are usually clad in thick linen shirts and grey coarse cloth, manufactured by the women; the "bonnet rouge" has now given place to the "bonnet bleu" with a handsome tassel, which has a less republican air than the other.
- 1853 (1955) The habitans' [sic] strange dress, with their grey cloth capots, with the scarlet sash tied round the waist, and bonnet bleu, with Indian moccasins, tastefully worked in beads of various colours, is certainly foreign.
- 1849 The men are usually clad in thick linen shirts and grey coarse cloth, manufactured by the women; the "bonnet rouge" has now given place to the "bonnet bleu" with a handsome tassel, which has a less republican air than the other.