Illustration of fez
plural fezzes also fezes
: a brimless cylindrical or somewhat cone-shaped hat with a flat top that usually has a tassel, is typically made of red felt, and is worn especially by men in eastern Mediterranean countries
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But as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry hints in The Little Prince, fault also lay with the Europeans, whose prejudices led them to see these reforms as necessary and, say, to take Turks in top hats more seriously than Turks in fezzes.
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Nick Danforth, Foreign Affairs, 6 Jan. 2015
Dart turned up wearing a banya hat—like a pointy fez that keeps your brain from boiling.
—Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2023
His imagery can occasionally seem reductive: pretzels and beers in Munich; magic carpets, aliens wearing fezzes, and a genie in a bottle in Rabat.
—Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
What remained were quirky relics, like a black-and-white photograph of my dad as a little boy, wearing a fez after his circumcision ceremony.
—Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
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.
—John Kelly, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2023
Bertie has been invited to many children’s tea parties and sleepovers and has endured wearing a dress, a fez and being a unicorn.
—Urmee Khan, CNN, 20 Mar. 2023
The director’s project was inspired by his father, an electrician who used to repair movie houses in the south, and his grandfather, who was a sailor and hakawati – a storyteller who sported a red fez while recounting folkloric tales in Tyre’s old cafes.
—Aj Naddaff, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Mar. 2022
For Christmas, the family went to Morocco, where Xavier learned why some people wear a fez or hijab.
—Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2023
Nick Danforth, Foreign Affairs, 6 Jan. 2015
Dart turned up wearing a banya hat—like a pointy fez that keeps your brain from boiling.
—Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2023
His imagery can occasionally seem reductive: pretzels and beers in Munich; magic carpets, aliens wearing fezzes, and a genie in a bottle in Rabat.
—Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
What remained were quirky relics, like a black-and-white photograph of my dad as a little boy, wearing a fez after his circumcision ceremony.
—Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
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.
—John Kelly, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2023
Bertie has been invited to many children’s tea parties and sleepovers and has endured wearing a dress, a fez and being a unicorn.
—Urmee Khan, CNN, 20 Mar. 2023
The director’s project was inspired by his father, an electrician who used to repair movie houses in the south, and his grandfather, who was a sailor and hakawati – a storyteller who sported a red fez while recounting folkloric tales in Tyre’s old cafes.
—Aj Naddaff, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Mar. 2022
For Christmas, the family went to Morocco, where Xavier learned why some people wear a fez or hijab.
—Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2023
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“Fez.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fez. Accessed 18 Jun. 2024.
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