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A felt cap (usually red) for a man
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tarboosh
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tarboosh \Tar*boosh"\, n. [Ar. tarb?sh; perhaps from Per. sar-posh headdress: cf. F. tarbouch.] A red cap worn by Turks and other Eastern nations, sometimes alone and sometimes swathed with linen or other stuff to make a turban. See Fez .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A red felt or cloth cap with a tassel, worn in the Arab world; a fez.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a felt cap (usually red) for a man; shaped like a flat-topped cone with a tassel that hangs from the crown [syn: fez ]
Usage examples of tarboosh.
The Negro commissionaire wore a striped djibbah and a tarboosh while the chasseur, an Annamite, wore a red fez with his dinner jacket.
In the meantime, the other two had sped away to the Kasbah, and before Israel had ridden far into the town, the Kaid--against all usage of his class and country--ran and met him--afoot, slipperless, wearing nothing but selham and tarboosh, out of breath, yet with a mouth full of excuses.
As the train gasped slowly up the grade and rolled bumpily at last along the fertile, neglected Syrian highland, all the Armenians on the train removed their hats and substituted the red tarboosh, preferring the headgear of a convert rather than be the target of every Bedouin with a rifle in his hand.
He was quietly but richly dressed in the Centauran manner, with a togalike cloak pinned with a brooch at one shoulder, a braided tarboosh in place of a headcloth, and red slippers with turned-up toes.
From what I had heard, the Cook's steamers were comfortable enough, providing everything from a proper English breakfast of eggs and bacon, oatmeal and marmalade, to an army of servants in red tarbooshes.
A Turkish officer with an immense plume of feathers (the Janizaries were supposed to be still in existence, and the tarboosh had not as yet displaced the ancient and majestic head-dress of the true believers), was seen couched on a divan, and making believe to puff at a narghile, in which, however, for the sake of the ladies, only a fragrant pastille was allowed to smoke.
The sun shone from a cloudless sky, brightening the flamboyant tarbooshes and gold-trimmed vests of the dragomen gathered round the steps of the hotel.