Meaning of befezzed | Babel Free

Definitions

Wearing a fez (“a felt hat shaped like a truncated cone with a tassel attached”); fezzed.

not-comparable

Examples

“[Y]ou have⟳ but to clap your hands, and lo! a slave appears, and a very picturesque slave he is, with head befezzed, and full trousers reaching to the knees; [...]”

“We can see⟳ the befezzed Turk in his bazaar dealng out his wares of pipes, tobacco, and trinkets, and the Japanese in his café concert most monotonously marring music, and astounding gaping wonder⟳.”

“[W]e are at once struck with the extraordinary nature of the fact that these intense individualities, these nations of widely different origin, [...] are contained in the circuit of a single empire; and we wonder⟳ what force⟳ it is which compels the strange cohesion. Surely it is not the sword of yonder cross-legged, lethargic, beturbanned, or befezzed being, who, pipe in mouth, looks softly out of his dark eyes with a half-expressed disdain!”

“No one who knows Constantinople will be surprised to learn⟳ that a brisk trade⟳ is done in the readjustment of the fez, for the greater part of the male population is befezzed, and it is essential to the well-being of every wearer of a fez, that his headdress shall preserve⟳ its pristine stiffness, [...]”

“From inside my taxi I watched theaters, cinemas, bookstores, bars, video shops, and cafes flash⟳ past, all set⟳ in the dusty stone motifs of Cairo Crazy architecture: mansard roofs with sphinx gargoyles, Catholic statues, Stalin gothic, and those coppery statues of befezzed heroes: Talaat Harb, Suleiman Pasha, Saad Zaghloul.”

“By September 7, 1922, every Greek in Smyrna, including Lefty Stephanides, is wearing a fez in order⟳ to pass⟳ as a Turk. [...] Lefty, newly moneyed and befezzed, makes his way through the maroon-capped crowd at the quay.”

“One of the befezzed gentlemen produced a velvet case. Inside was a bed of silk, and the Acorn of Ankara fitted perfectly into a small hollow.”

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