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means A soft brimless hat — especially a chef's tall pleated one, or the snug knitted winter cap called a toque in Canadian English.

from Toque traces to French toque, itself borrowed from Spanish or Old Occitan toca, a word for a kind of cloth headdress, possibly ultimately from a pre-Roman Mediterranean source — the trail goes cold before that. The tall white chef's version is a 19th-century French kitchen tradition; the pleats were sometimes said to number one hundred, one for every way a good cook could prepare an egg, though that's more kitchen lore than documented fact. Canadians later borrowed the same word for the knitted winter cap, stretching one hat word to cover two very different heads.