fez
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But soon he was very much the Doctor, bow tie, fez and all.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2024
The V&A museum in London has lent 28 items including Tommy Cooper's trademark fez and other props, and Sooty and Sweep puppets from the classic children's show.
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2024
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
Capped with a fez, speaking some sort of French patois, Mitchell brings his own campy aura to the movie, including the portentous punchline: “Choice is a Western concept.”
From New York Times ● May 24, 2023
Nuah poses for Muhammad, his hands resting on the hilt, sword pointing down, the fez sitting precariously on his hair.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
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During the American Civil War, swashbuckling soldiers known as “Zouaves” wore Turkish-style fezes with flowing tassels.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2012
With them were two officers in long grey cloaks and fezes.
From The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
A couple of Egyptian native police in khaki drill, brown belts, side-arms, red fezes, and carrying canes, both smoking cigarettes, swaggered up and down in front of an arc-light.
Things may have altered now, but during our visit hardly any women walked about the city, and the men were mostly dressed in dark European clothes with red fezes, not at all picturesque.
From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers
Turbans, and even fezes, you will allow to look prettier than English hats.
From Miscellanea by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
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
The fezzes, the prayer rugs, the crescent moons: it was a little like going home.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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Vocabulary lists containing fez
Put a Lid On It: Hats, Hoods, and Other Headgear
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"When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine," Vocabulary from the short story
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