Befezzed
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Wearing a fez (“a felt hat shaped like a truncated cone with a tassel attached”); fezzed. not-comparable
"[Y]ou have but to clap your hands, and lo! a slave appears, and a very picturesque slave he is, with head befezzed, and full trousers reaching to the knees; [...]"
Example
More examples"[Y]ou have but to clap your hands, and lo! a slave appears, and a very picturesque slave he is, with head befezzed, and full trousers reaching to the knees; [...]"
Etymology
From be- (prefix intensifying adjectives with the sense ‘adorned with something’) + fezzed (“wearing a fez”). Fezzed is derived from fez + -ed (suffix forming adjectives from nouns, with the sense of having the object represented by the noun), and fez from Ottoman Turkish فس (fes, “fez”), from فس (Fes), فاس (Fez, “the city of Fez, Morocco”) (where the red dye used to colour the hat was produced), from Arabic فَاس (fās, “Fez, Morocco; (archaic) fez”), perhaps related to Central Atlas Tamazight ⴰⴼⵣⴰ (afza, “coarse, rough; hard, rocky”) (referring to the Atlas Mountains).
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