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bonnet rouge Cdn French 
a red, tasselled tuque, traditional wear among rural French Canadians.
See also: tuque
- 1791 (1911) The Canadians wear scanty, thick woollen coats, and sometimes leather ones, with hoods to them, over a bonnet rouge, a red bonnet.
- 1913 (1915) The beaver-hat which Jean Jacques wore on state occasions ... together with the bonnet rouge of the habitant, donned by him in his younger days -- they fell to the nod of Mère Langois. ...
- 1964 The typical costume of the early lumberman,-- gray cloth trousers, flannel shirt, blanket coat, fastened around the waist with a red or tri-coloured sash, cow-hide boots with heavy spikes, and a bonnet rouge for the head,-- formed a picturesque ensemble.
- 1791 (1911) The Canadians wear scanty, thick woollen coats, and sometimes leather ones, with hoods to them, over a bonnet rouge, a red bonnet.