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fez
1[ fez ]
noun
- a felt cap, usually of a red color, having the shape of a truncated cone, and ornamented with a long black tassel, worn by men in Egypt and North Africa: formerly the national headdress of the Turks.
Fez
2[ fez ]
noun
- a city in N Morocco: formerly one of the traditional capitals of the sultanate in the former French zone.
fez
1/ fɛz /
noun
- an originally Turkish brimless felt or wool cap, shaped like a truncated cone, usually red and with a tassel
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Derived Forms
- fezzed, adjective
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Other Words From
- fezzy adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of fez1
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Example Sentences
Mutton Tagine in Zaita, Morocco This photo was taken at a tiny roadside town on the drive to Fez.
Turns out the guy was a plant from the Ron & Fez Show on Sirius XM Radio.
Sometimes the man in the fez, hardly able to hold himself upright, would bring them home frightfully sick.
He was dressed in a white fez and turban, white shirt and trousers, a black gown trimmed with red, and a green cloak over all.
At the same moment a portly Turk, in a red fez cap, pressed forward.
I buckled on the sabre, and Gregorios set the fez carefully on my head.
A native costume was the thing—and a fez which would hide the plaster on his head.
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