Fez

//fɛz// name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A felt hat in the shape of a truncated cone, having a flat top with a tassel attached.

    "He was in his shirt, but he still wore his fez, as though he had gone to bed in it, which was probably the case."

  2. 2
    a felt cap (usually red) for a man; shaped like a flat-topped cone with a tassel that hangs from the crown wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A city in Morocco.

Synonyms

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tarbooshcapchecheyafeshattarboosh

Example

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"The tarboosh, or fez, once a ubiquitous piece of headwear across the Middle East, has largely disappeared, but may be coming back in revised form."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish فس (fes) (modern Turkish fes), named after Fez, Morocco, (capital of the Kingdom of Morocco until 1927), where the dye to color the hat was extracted from crimson berries.

Etymology 2

From Arabic فَاس (fās).

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