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- noun Plural form of
chechia .
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Examples
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And there between the café and the _souk_ gate was the same whitewashed niche where three lads used to sit with their feet tucked under their little _kashabias_, their _chechias_ awry on their shaven polls, and their lips pursed to spit after the leather legs of the infidel conquerors passing by.
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He learned Punic without thinking about it, in playing with other children of Thagaste, just as the sons of our colonists learn Arab in playing with little boys who wear chechias on their heads.
Saint Augustin Louis Bertrand 1903
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A second bundle contained blouses of thin silk and gauze, and in a pearl box were pretty little chechias of sequined velvet, caps so small as to fit the head closely; and besides these, there were sashes and gandourahs, and haïcks white and fleecy, woven from the softest wool.
The Golden Silence 1901
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Second-generation chechia-producer Outaiel Jaoui still has two stores on the souk, where he serves up traditional red and black hats to Tunisians for formal occasions and a chechias in a rainbow of bright hues for visitors.
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