toque (a brimless hat); a pillbox hat; a type of round brimless hat traditionally worn by certain professions in France, such as university professors or judges; toque (a chef's hat); a chef
Synonyms: scutellaire
Inherited from Middle French toque, tocque (“toque", also "a type of hairstyle”), in some senses from Spanish toca (“headdress”) and in other senses from Italian tocca, from Lombard toh, from Lombardic *tuoh, from Proto-West Germanic *dōk (“cloth”).