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befezzed

Syllables: be·fezzed/bɪˈfɛzd/US/bəˈfɛzd/

befezzed adjective: wearing a fez (“a felt hat shaped like a truncated cone with a tassel attached”); fezzed.

befezzed: wearing a fez (“a felt hat shaped like a truncated cone with a tassel attached”); fezzed
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Adjective

befezzed (not comparable)

  1. Wearing a fez (“a felt hat shaped like a truncated cone with a tassel attached”); fezzed.
    • [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; [...]1862, Mrs. John B. Speid, chapter II, in Our Last Years in India, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 28
    • 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.1878 July 3, A. Sheffield Smith, “The Paris Exhibition and Its Aids”, in Capital and Labour: A Weekly Journal of Facts and Arguments on Questions Relating to Employers and Employed, volume V, London...

Examples of befezzed in a sentence

  • 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!1879 January, “Art. V.—1. The People of Turkey: Twenty Years’ Residence among Bulgarians, Greeks, Albanians, Turks, and Armenians. By a...
  • One of the befezzed gentlemen produced a velvet case.2015, Jordan Stratford, “Rumble and Great Speed”, in The Case of the Missing Moonstone (The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency), London...

Origin of befezzed

From be- (prefix intensifying adjectives with the sense ‘adorned with something’) + fezzed (“wearing a fez”). Fezzed is derived from fez + -ed (suffix forming adjectives from nouns, with the sense of having the object represented by the noun), and fez from Ottoman Turkish فس (fes, “fez”), from فس (Fes), فاس (Fez, “the city of Fez, Morocco”) (where the red dye used to colour the hat was produced), from Arabic فَاس (fās, “Fez, Morocco; (archaic) fez”), perhaps related to Central Atlas Tamazight ⴰⴼⵣⴰ (afza, “coarse, rough; hard, rocky”) (referring to the Atlas Mountains).

Questions about befezzed

What does befezzed mean?
Befezzed means wearing a fez (“a felt hat shaped like a truncated cone with a tassel attached”); fezzed.
How do you use befezzed in a sentence?
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!
What part of speech is befezzed?
Befezzed is an adjective.
How do you pronounce befezzed?
Befezzed is pronounced /bɪˈfɛzd/ (UK).

Words near befezzed in the dictionary

  1. befetter
  2. befettered
  3. befettering
  4. befetters
  5. befevered
  6. befezzed
  7. befie
  8. befied
  9. befies
  10. befight
  11. befile

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