fez
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The vendor Clive Greeenaway - who is a Cooper impersonator - said he was given the fez by the comedian's wife Gwen.
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
You catch some of his maverick character in the small 1830 graphite portrait by Bendz: in the disheveled collar, the squashy fez, the pipe extending casually from his lips.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2023
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
A bear in a fez on a unicycle.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
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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
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
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’m pretty sure slide whistles are going to take off,” he adds, sounding a bit like Doctor Who trying to convince Amy Pond that fezzes are cool.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 7, 2017
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
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