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Definition of Fezzes

1. fez [n] - See also: fez

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fezzes

Literary usage of Fezzes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Our Journey Around the World: An Illustrated Record of a Year's Travel of by Francis Edward Clark, Harriet Elizabeth Clark (1895)
"... "—Official Handwriting—A Sunday in Adana — A Living Screen — A Congregation of fezzes — Squatting on the Floor—"Is America on a Hill ? ..."

2. Turkey and Its Destiny: The Result of Journeys Made in 1847 and 1848 to by Charles MacFarlane (1850)
"... to English Workmen — The Iron Steamboat — Calico and Print Works — Manufactory of fezzes — Dreadful Poverty — More Waste of the Sultan's Money — Another ..."

3. The War in Eastern Europe by John Reed (1916)
"Floating silk Arab head-dresses, helmets, turbans of yellow and red, smart fezzes, fezzes with green turbans around them to mark the relative of the Prophet ..."

4. Ambassador Morgenthau's Story by Henry Morgenthau (1918)
"They took delight in putting on Turkish fezzes, thereby presenting to the world ... All solemnly removed their Turkish fezzes and put on German caps. ..."

5. Around the Black Sea by William Eleroy Curtis (1911)
"There were Turks of all kinds and all classes and all ages wearing fezzes of red felt; there were Persians, wearing fezzes of black lamb's-wool; ..."

6. Around the Black Sea by William Eleroy Curtis (1911)
"There were Turks of all kinds and all classes and all ages wearing fezzes of red felt; there were Persians, wearing fezzes of black ..."

7. A Month at Constantinople by Albert Smith (1851)
"Besides fezzes, an excellent cloth is made here, in large quantities, and the arrangements for carding, dyeing, weaving, knitting, &c., are complete. ..."

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