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. an originally Turkish brimless felt or wool cap, shaped like a truncated cone, usually red and with a tassel

Fez

²

/ fɛz /

noun

1. See Fès
   a variant of Fès

Derived Forms

• fezzed, adjective

Other Words From

• fezzy adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of fez¹

1795–1805; < Turkish fes, after Fes Fez

Word History and Origins

Origin of fez¹

C19: via French from Turkish, from Fez

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.

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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.

From Washington Post

Mutton Tagine in Zaita, Morocco This photo was taken at a tiny roadside town on the drive to Fez.

From The Daily Beast

Turns out the guy was a plant from the Ron & Fez Show on Sirius XM Radio.

From The Daily Beast

Sometimes the man in the fez, hardly able to hold himself upright, would bring them home frightfully sick.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

At the same moment a portly Turk, in a red fez cap, pressed forward.

From Project Gutenberg

I buckled on the sabre, and Gregorios set the fez carefully on my head.

From Project Gutenberg

A native costume was the thing—and a fez which would hide the plaster on his head.

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• beret