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He no longer wears the peasant costume he used when playing the role of latter-day god, appears instead in a dirty white silk suit, two-toned shoes, a striped silk shirt and a shining tarbush.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even with the tarbush upon his head his appearance was not unmistakably Eastern.

From Bella Donna A Novel by Hichens, Robert Smythe

And out of an apparently bomb-proof shelter below several tons of books there emerged a little old gentleman in a brilliant tarbush, who looked inquiringly in my direction.

From Aliens by McFee, William

He was dressed in a light grey suit, and wore the tarbush.

From Bella Donna A Novel by Hichens, Robert Smythe

And Mr. Bizikas, the little old gentleman in the vivid tarbush, who was lighting a very dirty tin lamp to assist the one candle in the oriental candelabrum, had no objection.

From Aliens by McFee, William