The many folds on a toque blanche are believed to signify the many ways that an egg can be cooked ..

A parody of television chefs, the Swedish Chef wears a toque blanche and has bushy eyebrows that completely obscure his eyes.

Mobutu Sese Seko in 1973 sporting his signature leopardskin Toque ( French ) | toque and glasses

It came through the Medieval French toque ( 15th century ), presumably by the way of the Spanish toca " woman's headdress ", from Arabic * taqaطاقة ' ' Opening '.

The modern toque is popularly believed to have originated with the famous French chefs Marie-Antoine Carême and Auguste Escoffier.

* A toque, or sometimes touge, was the traditional headgear of various French magistrates.

The pleated, low, round hat worn in French universities — the equivalent of the mortarboard or tam at British and American universities — is also called a toque.

Thus a Napoleonic Duke used a toque with 7 ostrich feathers and 3 lambrequins, a Count a toque with five feathers and two lambrequins, a Baron three feathers and one lambrequin, a Knight only one ostrich feather ( see Nobility of the First French Empire ).

The end of the battle saw the first time a " call to prayer " ( toque de oracion ) was issued, a practice that was later adopted by most Western armies, when the Great Captain, upon seeing the fields full of French bodies ( who, like the Spaniards, were Christian ), ordered three long tones to be played and his troops to pray for all the fallen.

In Canada, toque, or tuque (), is the common name for a knitted winter hat.

Others reserve uniform play for beginners and require significant variation from their advanced students, as long as the characteristic of the " toque " is not blurred.

Capoeiristas and masters engage in endless debate about the denominations of the rhythms, the loose or tight relations of any definite rhythmic pattern to a toque name, to speed of execution, and to the type of Capoeira game it calls for.

The chef ’ s costume, the jacket and hat, or “ toque ”, are steeped in history and tradition which members honor by dressing appropriately for each regular event and by wearing a Les Marmitons jacket and hat.

“ Raphaelson took the giddiest inspirations and then polished his dialogue until it had the gleam of appliquéd butterfly wings on a Ziegfield girl ’ s toque, but the skeletal strength of his screenplays was what made it possible for the ideas and the words to take flight .”

Unfortunately, the toque macaque is endangered ; their rainforest home is being cut down for logging and for farming.

It was completed with a soft cap or fez with a single, long, golden silk tassel, traditionally worn by married women, or with the kalpaki ( a toque ) of the unmarried woman, and sometimes with a black veil for church.

A toque ( or ) is a type of hat with a narrow brim or no brim at all.

He is credited with creating the standard chef's hat, the toque ; he designed new sauces and dishes, he published a classification of all sauces into groups, based on four mother sauces.

A tuque ( English:, also spelled toque but still pronounced tuque ), knit cap ( British English ), or beanie ( North American, UK, Australian, and New Zealand English ), also variously known as a knit hat, toboggan ( Southern US ), burglar beanie, cora cap ( Pacific Northwest ), or stocking cap among other names – is a knitted cap, originally of wool though now often of synthetic fibers, that is designed to provide warmth in winter.

Also traditionally in Cuba, in Havana the batá are rarely played after sundown, while in Matanzas toque ceremonies often begin at night.

As the capoeiristas change their playing style significantly following the toque of the berimbau, which sets the game's speed, style and aggressiveness, it is truly the music that drives a Capoeira game.

In other traditions, Iúna is a funeral toque.

Since the end of Capoeira prohibition, knifes or razors are unlikely to come around the roda, so usually this toque is played only in some presentations.

Flamenco () is a genre of Spanish music, song, and dance from Andalusia, in southern Spain, that includes cante ( singing ), toque ( guitar playing ), baile ( dance ) and palmas ( handclaps ).

* A red toque is sometimes worn by German judges, primarily by justices on the Federal Constitutional Court.

There is also an unproven theory that the design of the papal tiara would have been based on a toque.

The word is etymologically related to the name of the chef's toque, an alternate spelling.

* Touch tone ( toque de punta ): as implied by the name, this tone is produced by just touching the fingers or heel of the palm to the drum head.

The toque called " Santa Maria " is a four bar transcription of the corridos " Santa Maria " and " Apanha Laranja no Chão Tico Tico ".

He is wearing a red toque and has a large moustache.

A ceremony with batá drums is generally known as a " toque ," " tambor de santo ," or " bembé ," but ceremonies can also be accompanied by shaken gourd-rattle < em >" chékere "</ em > ( in English " shekere ") ensembles ( usually with < em > tumbadora </ em >, also called < em > conga </ em > drums ).

The toque macaque ( Macaca sinica ) is a reddish-brown-coloured Old World monkey endemic to Sri Lanka, where it is locally known as the rilewa or rilawa ( Sinhala ර ි ළව ා), ( hence " rillow " in the Oxford English Dictionary ).

The toque most likely originated as the result of the gradual evolution of head coverings worn by cooks throughout the centuries.

Iúna: A toque created by Mestre Bimba and used in Capoeira Regional.

Such hats are known in other English-speaking countries by a variety of names, including beanie ( American ), watch cap or stocking cap ; the terms tuque and toque are unique to Canada and northern areas of the United States, close to the Canadian border.

In the context of capoeira angola, the médio inverts the gunga's melody ( angola toque ): ( xxL. H ...) by playing São Bento Pequeno: ( xxH. L ...) with moderate improvisation.

He decided his economic plan to be very neo-liberal ; it was designed by Argentinian economist Domingo Cavallo, and included stop subsidies, regulate banks and financial institutions, and a strong currency devaluation (" Un sólo toque " would replace the sucre ).

São Bento Grande: Probably the most famous toque.

Cavalaria: This toque carries anxiety and stress.

Historically, when Capoeira was still prohibited this toque was used to alert capoeiristas that the police was coming, so they could escape before the practice being discovered.

Man wearing a toque.

Playing in sub-zero temperatures, Theodore famously wore a toque over his goalie helmet.

In Sri Lanka, the naturalist also spends time with a troop of toque macaques — one of the most studied groups of monkeys in the world.

By the end of the century, many other styles were introduced, among them hats with wide brims and flat crowns, the flower pot and the toque.