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fez

[fez]
–noun, plural fez⋅zes.
a felt cap, usually of a red color, having the shape of a truncated cone, and ornamented with a long black tassel, worn by men in Egypt and North Africa: formerly the national headdress of the Turks.

Origin:
1795–1805; < Turk fes, after Fes Fez


fezzy, adjective

Fez

[fez]
–noun
a city in N Morocco: formerly one of the traditional capitals of the sultanate in the former French zone. 1,137,800.

Fès

[fes]
–noun
a city in N Morocco: formerly one of the traditional capitals of the sultanate in the former French zone. 1,137,800.
Also, Fez [fez] .
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fez   (fěz)   
n.   pl. fez·zes
A man's felt cap in the shape of a flat-topped cone, usually red with a black tassel hanging from the crown, worn chiefly in the eastern Mediterranean region.

[French, from Turkish fes, from Fez.]
Fez   (fěz)   
A city of north-central Morocco northeast of Casablanca. The oldest part of the city was founded in the 9th century and reached the height of its influence in the mid-14th century. Population: 946,000.
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Word Origin & History

fez 
1802, from Fr. fez, from Turk. fes, probably ult. from Fez, the city in Morocco, where this type of tasseled cap was principally made.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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