fez

Amanda Butler, from Hansons Auctioneers, said "it was the fez that made the show".

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

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

That history helps explain why Sabbatai’s successor, Jacob Frank, dressed in Turkish fashion throughout his life, wearing curved shoes and a tall fez.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2022

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

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

On approaching we discovered a detachment of Tirailleurs from Algiers, sitting in groups, and the "poppies" were the red fezes of the men--a gorgeous blending of crimson and gold.

From The White Road to Verdun by Kathleen Burke

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

Now the Turks stand in long rows, white and green turbans and red fezes with black tassels all mixed together.

From From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People by Sven Anders Hedin

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 suspected it was like the Shriners Club, to which my grandfather belonged, but with better fezzes.

From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2018

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