fez
noun/fez/
/fez/
(plural fezzes)
- a round red hat with a flat top and a tassel but no brim, worn by men in some Muslim countriesTopics Clothes and Fashionc2Word Originearly 19th cent.: from Turkish fes (perhaps via French fez), named after Fez, a city in northern Morocco, once the chief place of manufacture.
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