fez

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He was dressed like a fellah, with the long blue yelek, and a poor wool fez, and round the fez was a white cloth, as it were to protect his mouth from the night air, after the manner of the peasant The fires of the enemy were dying down, and only here and there Arabs gossiped or drank coffee by the embers.

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  1. noun A man's felt cap in the shape of a flat-topped cone, usually red with a black tassel hanging from the crown, worn chiefly in the eastern Mediterranean region.

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  • Wearing a burgundy fez, a matching robe and dreadlocks, Mr. Sut Tekh El explained he knew the parents well and was familiar with everything that had led to the arrest. —  Religion News Blog
  • Yet round the brown fez was a green cloth, which may only be worn by one who has been a pilgrimage to Mecca Nehar-ak koom said--God be with you!" —  Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Complete
  • He was dressed like a fellah, with the long blue yelek, and a poor wool fez, and round the fez was a white cloth, as it were to protect his mouth from the night air, after the manner of the peasant The fires of the enemy were dying down, and only here and there Arabs gossiped or drank coffee by the embers. —  Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Complete
  • He was dispirited even to the crumpled look of his red fez, and the sun, shining mercilessly, glinted from his rifle-barrel to the beads of perspiration on the back of his neck. —  Riviera Towns
  • Argus pheas--fez--fuz--" snore Ned shook him again sharply What's the matter?" —  The Rajah of Dah
 

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  1. French, from Turkish fes, from Fez .

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  1. from French fez, from Turkish fes, said to be named from the city of Fez, the principal town in Morocco, where such caps are largely manufactured.
 

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