Fès

[fes]

noun

a city in N Morocco: formerly one of the traditional capitals of the sultanate in the former French zone.

Also Fez [fez] /fɛz/.

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Historical Examples of fes

The Fes of Normandy are, like others, guilty of child-changing.
The Fairy Mythology
Thomas Keightley
All this, however, does not prove that they were the origin of the Fes: see above, p. 6.
The Fairy Mythology
Thomas Keightley
But, in popular superstition, if not in Perrault's tales, the Fes had many other attributes.
Popular Tales
Charles Perrault
He asked to speak to Fes alone a minute, and later I helped Fes do what he told him.
In the Arena
Booth Tarkington
Festal, fes′tal, adj. pertaining to a feast or holiday: joyous: gay.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M)
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British Dictionary definitions for fes

Fès

Fez

noun

a city in N central Morocco, traditional capital of the north: became an independent kingdom in the 11th century, at its height in the 14th century; religious centre; university (850). Pop: 664 000 (2003)

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