fez1
nounPlural fezzes fɛzfɛz
A flat-topped conical red hat with a black tassel on top, worn by men in some Muslim countries (formerly the Turkish national headdress).
- Numbering more than 30 items so far, each measuring 4 or 5 inches across, the series includes baseball caps, party hats, a fez, a motorcycle helmet and a hat with the Act Up logo on it.
- In rural areas, men may still wear the fez, a traditional Turkish cap, and a colorful cloth belt.
- Traditionally, older men wore breeches, a cummerbund, a striped shirt, a vest, and even a fez, a hat that was usually red.
- But both in their time were seen as symbols of opposition to the modern Turkish state; the fez because of its links to the old Ottoman empire, the headscarf because of its symbolism of Islamic piety.
- When the fez was banned and the Panama hat went out of fashion, the veil was turned into a signifier for the supposed incommensurability between Islam and modern nationhood.
- On the way back I passed an old man riding a motorcycle, wearing a blue plaid lungi, dingy white shirt, and a tall red fez with a black tassel.
- The shape in those days was that of a Turkish fez, something like that of the confections later known as sultanes.
- Thus the Bulgarian state targeted the observable markers of Muslim manhood: the fez (a type of hat) and the practice of circumcision.
- There was a camel corps from India, the Dyak police from Borneo, Muslim zaptiehs in their red fezzes, soldiers from Fiji, Egypt, Sierra Leone, Zanzibar and many more.
- Arabic influences are strong, especially along the coast where the fez (a type of hat) and turban are commonplace.
- He had to wear a uniform: A fez with a tassel on it and a baggy suit of many colors.
- It is difficult for us to see any reason why a Jew may not wear his yarmulke in court, a Sikh his turban, a Muslim woman her chador, or a Moor his fez.
- A more traditional, perhaps ceremonial, hat is the fez, worn by older upper-class men.
- Ataturk also outlawed the traditional fez, a brimless, cone-shaped, red hat and made brimmed felt hats mandatory, because with them on men could not touch their foreheads to the ground in prayer.
- The fez, the red cap worn by many Turks, conveyed social standing and, because it lacked a brim, made it possible for its wearer to touch the ground with his forehead when saying prayers.
- The traditional headgear for Moroccan men is the fez, named after the Moroccan city of the same name.
- Men wear the shirwal (baggy black pants that fit at the shin), high black boots, white blousy shirts, dark vests, and a fez.
- He abolished the Arabic script, made the Turks abandon the fez and turban for Western hats, stripped the veils from the faces of Turkish women and even accepted that those who were nominally Muslim had a right to drink alcohol.
- He wore a black achkan and a red fez with a black tassel, and was amazingly dignified.
- Turbans, fezzes, yarmulkes and black lace veils, or mantillas, joined the zucchettos or skull caps of Catholic prelates on the basilica's steps in an extraordinary mix of religious and government leaders from around the world.
Derivatives
fezzed
- They are turbaned, or fezzed, and bearded, and these beards are fearful and wonderful things.
- Several fezzed and vested waiters rush around taking orders from customers seated on bright cushions scattered around low wooden tables.
adjective
Origin
Early 19th century: from Turkish fes (perhaps via French fez), named after Fez, once the chief place of manufacture.
Rhymes
Fès, fraise, Kes, Les, Montez, says, sez, Varèse
Fez2
(also Fès)
proper nounfɛzfez
A city in northern Morocco, founded in 808; population 977,946 (2004).
fez1
nounfɛzfez
A flat-topped conical red hat with a black tassel on top, worn by men in some Muslim countries (formerly the Turkish national headdress).
- There was a camel corps from India, the Dyak police from Borneo, Muslim zaptiehs in their red fezzes, soldiers from Fiji, Egypt, Sierra Leone, Zanzibar and many more.
- Arabic influences are strong, especially along the coast where the fez (a type of hat) and turban are commonplace.
- Thus the Bulgarian state targeted the observable markers of Muslim manhood: the fez (a type of hat) and the practice of circumcision.
- He abolished the Arabic script, made the Turks abandon the fez and turban for Western hats, stripped the veils from the faces of Turkish women and even accepted that those who were nominally Muslim had a right to drink alcohol.
- Traditionally, older men wore breeches, a cummerbund, a striped shirt, a vest, and even a fez, a hat that was usually red.
- The fez, the red cap worn by many Turks, conveyed social standing and, because it lacked a brim, made it possible for its wearer to touch the ground with his forehead when saying prayers.
- In rural areas, men may still wear the fez, a traditional Turkish cap, and a colorful cloth belt.
- Numbering more than 30 items so far, each measuring 4 or 5 inches across, the series includes baseball caps, party hats, a fez, a motorcycle helmet and a hat with the Act Up logo on it.
- Turbans, fezzes, yarmulkes and black lace veils, or mantillas, joined the zucchettos or skull caps of Catholic prelates on the basilica's steps in an extraordinary mix of religious and government leaders from around the world.
- It is difficult for us to see any reason why a Jew may not wear his yarmulke in court, a Sikh his turban, a Muslim woman her chador, or a Moor his fez.
- Ataturk also outlawed the traditional fez, a brimless, cone-shaped, red hat and made brimmed felt hats mandatory, because with them on men could not touch their foreheads to the ground in prayer.
- On the way back I passed an old man riding a motorcycle, wearing a blue plaid lungi, dingy white shirt, and a tall red fez with a black tassel.
- When the fez was banned and the Panama hat went out of fashion, the veil was turned into a signifier for the supposed incommensurability between Islam and modern nationhood.
- But both in their time were seen as symbols of opposition to the modern Turkish state; the fez because of its links to the old Ottoman empire, the headscarf because of its symbolism of Islamic piety.
- Men wear the shirwal (baggy black pants that fit at the shin), high black boots, white blousy shirts, dark vests, and a fez.
- He wore a black achkan and a red fez with a black tassel, and was amazingly dignified.
- He had to wear a uniform: A fez with a tassel on it and a baggy suit of many colors.
- The shape in those days was that of a Turkish fez, something like that of the confections later known as sultanes.
- A more traditional, perhaps ceremonial, hat is the fez, worn by older upper-class men.
- The traditional headgear for Moroccan men is the fez, named after the Moroccan city of the same name.
Origin
Early 19th century: from Turkish fes (perhaps via French fez), named after Fez, once the chief place of manufacture.
Fez2
(also Fès)
proper nounfez
A city in northern Morocco, founded in 808; population 977,946 (2004).