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Definition of Chechia
1. a type of skullcap [n -S] - See also: skullcap
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chechia
Literary usage of Chechia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Carthage and Tunis: The Old and New Gates of the Orient by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen (1906)
"The Souk of the chechia-makers bears a strong resemblance to a graveyard, because
the wooden posts on which they are shrunk are naturally of the shape of a ..."
2. Journal of Small Things by Helen Mackay (1917)
"She said, "The chief is coming to see the wounds, we must cut all the dressings.
Take your scissors, and begin to the right of the door." The chechia ..."
3. Philip Gilbert Hamerton: An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His by Philip Gilbert Hamerton, Eugénie Hamerton (1897)
"In due course he got through the distemper without accident, but for fear of
chills he continued to wear the chechia and monk's dress in the house some time ..."
4. After the War: London, Paris, Rome, Athens, Prague, Vienna, Budapest by Charles à Court Repington (1922)
"All the others were fairish men, fine-looking chaps, the Algerian and Tunisian
men with the red chechia or fez, and the Moroccans with ..."
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