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# fez

«fez» in Mova's school dictionary: **A round red felt hat with a flat top and a black tassel…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a fez, fezzes)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A round red felt hat with a flat top and a black tassel, with no brim, traditional in Turkey, North Africa and the Middle East. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fez/#m1)

2) Fez (or Fes): a famous old city in Morocco. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fez/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons the fez was worn in the Ottoman Empire until Turkey banned it in 1925. In stories and TV it is a fun costume hat; magicians sometimes wear one. Phrases: «wear a fez».

### examples

- The magician wore a red fez with a black tassel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fez/#x1)
- My grandfather has an old fez from Morocco. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fez/#x2)
- The fez is named after the city of Fez. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fez/#x3)
- In Turkey the fez was banned about a hundred years ago. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fez/#x4)
- Fezzes are cool! said the Doctor in Doctor Who. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fez/#x5)
- The tassel on the fez swung as he danced. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fez/#x6)
- The red jacket fitted tight and close, the tassel on my Fez cap was of silver, and in my girdle glittered a knife and my pistols. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fez/#x7)

### note

Plural: fezzes (double z). Capital F for the city.

### In the corpora

- [Yasmin says the oldest university is in Fez, Morocco; Tom says Oxford.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/64-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fez» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fez/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.