fez

The V&A museum in London has lent 28 items including Tommy Cooper's trademark fez and other props, and Sooty and Sweep puppets from the classic children's show.

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

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

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

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2012

The steamer drifted broadside to the shore, one stern wheel revolving lazily, and then they saw, Imgani amongst the rest, that the decks were crowded with soldiers, impassive brown men in blue uniforms and fezes.

From Sanders of the River by Wallace, Edgar

The Arabic numeral of each native battalion was worn by the men on their tall fezes and the khaki covers for the head-gear.

From Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Burleigh, Bennet

According to a report which reaches us the crews of the Goeben and Breslau are wearing a most curious garb, being clothed in Turkish fezes and breaches of neutrality.

From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 11, 1914 by Various

They had neither tarboosh nor burnous, but simply red fezes; tight sleeveless shirts of striped stuff, and trousers of Turkish cut.

From The Flying Legion by England, George Allan

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

Millions of rubber trees stood in martial rows, their catchment buckets resembling red fezzes.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 14, 2016

Penguia’s secondary chiefs sported gold or crimson fezzes with brilliant tassels.

From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2014

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