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  • Only old guys wear it, the way their own grandfathers wore the red tarboush.

    Doughnuts: The Third Rail of American Politics? - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • Fine, upstanding black men they were, marching straight and soldierly, neat in their uniforms of khaki, with the dull red tarboush, the blue leggings, the bare knees and feet.

    The Leopard Woman Stewart Edward White 1909

  • We had as guide a slender and wiry individual clad in tarboush and long white robe.

    African Camp Fires Stewart Edward White 1909

  • This personage was adorned with more than one order, and dressed in the Frank uniform of one of the Great Powers, though his head was shaven, for he wore a tarboush or red cap, although no turban.

    Tancred Or, The New Crusade Benjamin Disraeli 1842

  • _tarboush_ or a pair of baggy trousers and sash; and it was curious to observe how the wearers of these garments had acquired a loaferish,

    Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 Various

  • a polished bone armlet, and a tarboush that must have been traded through many hands.

    The Leopard Woman Stewart Edward White 1909

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