: a brimless cylindrical or somewhat cone-shaped hat with a flat top that usually has a tassel, is typically made of red felt, and is worn especially by men in eastern Mediterranean countries
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At least that’s what the horse wearing a fez just told me* in a dream.—Ellise Shafer, Variety, 16 Jan. 2025 At least that's what the horse wearing a fez just told me* in a dream.—Brendan Morrow, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025 The conical pile of locks were inspired by the silhouette of fez and pillbox hats beloved by Jackie Onassis and fixed into place using a mixture of pins and copious hairspray.—Leah Dolan, CNN, 13 Dec. 2024 Atay was born in 1934, near the Black Sea port town of İnebolu—the city where Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic, had donned a jaunty Panama hat to give a speech decrying the barbarism of the fez and other Ottoman fashions.—Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for fez
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