Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A man's brimless felt cap in the shape of a flat-topped cone, usually colored red and adorned with a silk tassel, once widely worn in the Ottoman Empire and other regions with Muslim populations and still worn today in some Muslim countries.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A cap of red felt of the shape of a truncated cone, having a black silk tassel inserted in the middle of the top and hanging down nearly to the lower edge.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A felt or cloth cap, usually red and having a tassel, -- a variety of the tarboosh. See tarboosh.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A felt hat in the shape of a truncated cone and having a flat top with a tassel attached.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a city in north central Morocco; religious center
  • noun a felt cap (usually red) for a man; shaped like a flat-topped cone with a tassel that hangs from the crown

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, from Turkish fes, from Fez.]

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From Turkish fes, named after Fez in Morocco.

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Examples

  • Whereas wearing a fez is an affront to Turkish democracy which no sensitive and civilised traveller should consider.

    Only In Scallyland ... Laban 2005

  • Whereas wearing a fez is an affront to Turkish democracy which no sensitive and civilised traveller should consider.

    Archive 2005-05-15 Laban 2005

  • Whereas wearing a fez is an affront to Turkish democracy which no sensitive and civilised traveller should consider.

    May 15, 2005 Laban 2005

  • July 22, 2008 at 1:09 pm so awesome! there used to be a club near me called the fez, which has just been given a weird makeover and a new name. this picture must be posted all over the club!

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  • There was a sprinkling of monkish cowls and of the red fez from the Turkish village of Afdimou which lay in seeming friendliness of relation close to the village of

    The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus Lawrence Turnbull

  • The fez is a mark of lower social rank-the turban, higher.

    The Pan-Arab Movement and The Sterling Bloc 1946

  • From Nazis to talking monkeys in fez’s, to atomic terrorists to Britain’s first super team, The Gloom has it all.

    Lee and Boultwood Join The Chemistry Set | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

  • The manufactures are principally woollen haiks, silk handkerchiefs, slippers and shoes of excellent leather, and red caps of felt, commonly called the fez; the first fabrication of these red caps appears to have been in this city.

    Travels in Morocco 2003

  • He wore the customary white robe, red sash and red slippers, and a tarbush, the little scarlet cap commonly called a fez, was set upon his head.

    Dope Sax Rohmer 1921

  • He was dressed like a fellah, with the long blue yelek, and a poor wool fez, and round the fez was a white cloth, as it were to protect his mouth from the night air, after the manner of the peasant.

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

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