Toque roots are sometimes traced to the "casque à meche" (stocking cap) worn by 18th-century French chefs. The colour of the "casque à meche" denoted the rank of the wearer. Boucher, the personal chef of the French statesman Talleyrand, was the first to insist on white toques for sanitary reasons. The modern toque is popularly believed to have originated with the French chef Marie-Antoine Carême (1784–1833), who stiffened the "casque à meche" with cardboard . 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.
Toque macaque Toque macaque The toque macaque ("Macaca sinica") is a reddish-brown-coloured Old World monkey endemic to Sri Lanka, where it is known as the "rilewa" or "rilawa" (Sinhala රිළවා), (hence "rillow" in the "Oxford English Dictionary"). With age, the face of females turn slightly pink, prominent in the subsp. "sinica". "M. s. sinica" is found from the Vavuniya, Mannar, up to the lowlands of Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa, Puttalam, and Kurunegala along the arid zone of Monaragala, and Hambantota districts. "M. s. aurifrons" can be found sympatrically with subsp. "sinica" within intermediate regions of the country, such as Kegalle, parts of Kurunegala. They