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 →

2) Fez (or Fes): a famous old city in Morocco. tree →

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 →
• My grandfather has an old fez from Morocco. tree →
• The fez is named after the city of Fez. tree →
• In Turkey the fez was banned about a hundred years ago. tree →
• Fezzes are cool! said the Doctor in Doctor Who. tree →
• The tassel on the fez swung as he danced. tree →
• 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 →

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.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «fez» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.