fez

Showtown puts a spotlight on the town's rich history as the seaside home of showbiz, with other exhibits including George Formby's ukulele, Tommy Cooper's fez and Peter Kay's purple suit.

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

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

One man, a pure blue-black Yoruban, stands mute in the center of the room, a starched cotton fez on his head.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

During the American Civil War, swashbuckling soldiers known as “Zouaves” wore Turkish-style fezes with flowing tassels.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2012

There were no Turks in red fezes squatting in the dust, hunting among their rags for fleas, and there were no more slender peasants in tight white-wool trousers and beautiful embroidered shirts.

From Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915 by Ruth Pierce

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

Then the Constituent Assembly with its new Turkish members in their fezes rather takes the eye as a novel synthesis of political interest in the Near East.

From Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 by Stephen Graham

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