Definition of "fez" []

• A man's felt cap in the shape of a flat-topped cone, usually red with a black tassel hanging from the crown, worn chiefly in the eastern Mediterranean region. (noun)

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• "Whereas wearing a fez is an affront to Turkish democracy which no sensitive and civilised traveller should consider."
• "July 22, 2008 at 1:09 pm so awesome! there used to be a club near me called the fez, which has just been given a weird makeover and a new name. this picture must be posted all over the club!"
• "There was a sprinkling of monkish cowls and of the red fez from the Turkish village of Afdimou which lay in seeming friendliness of relation close to the village of"