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Fez

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. Also called tarboosh.

Tarboosh

See fez.

Fez

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

Tarboosh

A red felt or cloth cap with a tassel, worn in the Arab world; a fez.

Fez

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

A red cap worn by Turks and other Eastern nations, sometimes alone and sometimes swathed with linen or other stuff to make a turban. See Fez.

Fez

A city in north central Morocco; religious center

Tarboosh

A felt cap (usually red) for a man; shaped like a flat-topped cone with a tassel that hangs from the crown

Fez

A felt cap (usually red) for a man; shaped like a flat-topped cone with a tassel that hangs from the crown

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