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fez

1

[ fez ]

noun

, plural fez·zes.
  1. 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

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

Fez

1

/ fɛz /

noun

  1. a variant of Fès
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


fez

2

/ fɛz /

noun

  1. an originally Turkish brimless felt or wool cap, shaped like a truncated cone, usually red and with a tassel
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • fezzed, adjective
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Other Words From

  • fezzy adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of fez1

1795–1805; < Turkish fes, after Fes Fez
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Word History and Origins

Origin of fez1

C19: via French from Turkish, from Fez
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Example Sentences

It’s funny how this portion of the episode becomes pure slapstick, all the while Fez and Ashtray are basically in Zero Dark Thirty.

Ashtray accidently shoots Fez from inside the bathroom, and Ashtray gets shot in the head by a SWAT team member.

As life got busy in a family with two working parents and a child with many activities, there never seemed to be enough time to deal with excess, whether it was our fez collection or our Pez collection.

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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