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[fez] / fɛz /


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The vendor Clive Greeenaway - who is a Cooper impersonator - said he was given the fez by the comedian's wife Gwen.

From BBC Mar. 16, 2025

We have photos of my male ancestors wearing the fez and the Ottoman military uniform, but women were rarely photographed.

From Salon Feb. 27, 2024

You catch some of his maverick character in the small 1830 graphite portrait by Bendz: in the disheveled collar, the squashy fez, the pipe extending casually from his lips.

From New York Times Mar. 23, 2023

He’s the one wearing the Ottoman-style fez, recounting a tale from his recent trip to Constantinople with Rorbye.

From Washington Post Feb. 3, 2023

I show her the picture of Nuah posing with the fez.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

During the American Civil War, swashbuckling soldiers known as “Zouaves” wore Turkish-style fezes with flowing tassels.

From Slate Oct. 8, 2012

Large quantities of ready-made clothes and fezes are imported from Austria.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various

Then the Constituent Assembly with its new Turkish members in their fezes rather takes the eye as a novel synthesis of political interest in the Near East.

From Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 by Stephen Graham

A few of the better-paid older men wore turbans of cheap white muslin, wrapped round brown felt skull-caps, or fezes.

From There was a King in Egypt by Norma Lorimer

All four were dressed in stiff Hungarian dolmans, long black pantaloons, and red fezes.

From The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries by Mór Jókai

The Shriners would become known for their philanthropy — funding children’s hospitals — but they would also be known for their zanier side: donning fezzes and zipping around in tiny cars.

From Washington Post Feb. 25, 2023

He’s saved a few fancy outfits and fezzes that Guy used to wear during solo and band jobs at restaurants such as Haji Baba’s in Inglewood and Arabian Nights in Fresno.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 23, 2021

“I’m pretty sure slide whistles are going to take off,” he adds, sounding a bit like Doctor Who trying to convince Amy Pond that fezzes are cool.

From The Guardian Apr. 7, 2017

Millions of rubber trees stood in martial rows, their catchment buckets resembling red fezzes.

From The New Yorker Mar. 14, 2016

We passed a long column of loaded mules, the drivers walking along beside the mules wearing red fezzes.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway




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