Chechia

Large baggy pantaloons of white cloth, a small tight jacket with metal buttons, a red sash wound round his stomach and on his head a gigantic "Chechia" (a red floppy bonnet) with an immensely long blue tassel dangling from its crown.

Tartarin De Tarascon Alphonse Daudet 1868

Lamoricière was known in Algeria as _Bou Chechia_, or _Papa with the

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Various

_Chechia_ of Mourad Bey, and the red tunic of the Papal Guard with its gold collar, blue embroideries, and gold braid on the breast, decorated also with the huge brilliant cross of the Legion of Honour, which the young Italian had received that very morning, the President thinking it proper to reward the successful delivery of the Cardinal's hat.

The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 Alphonse Daudet 1868