n. A red felt or cloth cap with a tassel, worn in the Arab world; a fez.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. 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.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A cap of cloth or felt, nearly always red, and having a tassel, usually of dark-blue silk, at the crown.
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n. a felt cap (usually red) for a man; shaped like a flat-topped cone with a tassel that hangs from the crown
Word Usage
"Outside the presence Dicky unbuttoned his coat like an Englishman again, and ten minutes later flung his tarboosh into a corner of the room; for the tarboosh was the sign of official servitude, and Dicky was never the perfect official."