Tarboosh

//tɑːˈbuːʃ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A red felt or cloth cap with a tassel, worn in the Arab world; a fez.

    "He went to the Pyramids and Syria, and there left his malady behind him, and returned with a fine beard, and a supply of tarbooshes and nargillies, with which he regales all his friends."

  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

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fezfez

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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

From Arabic طَرْبُوش (ṭarbūš).

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