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tarboosh

/tɑːˈbuːʃ/US/tɑɹˈbuʃ/

tarboosh noun: a red felt or cloth cap with a tassel, worn in the Arab world; a fez.

tarboosh: a red felt or cloth cap with a tassel, worn in the Arab world; a fez
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Noun

tarboosh (plural tarbooshes)

  1. A red felt or cloth cap with a tassel, worn in the Arab world; a fez.
    • He went to the Pyramids and Syria, and there left his malady behind him, and returned with a fine beard, and a supply of tarbooshes and nargillies, with which he regales all his friends.1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 76, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published...
    • He rehearsed all the afternoon how he should play the heavy father for the young man's edification till he reduced his children to helpless giggling. Just before he was due Athelny routed out an Egyptian tarboosh and insisted on putting it on.1915, W.S. Maugham, Of Human Bondage

tarboosh meaning in Tamil

tarboosh in Tamil

துருக்கிக் குல்லாய் வகை

Examples of tarboosh in a sentence

  • They were for their part astonished, for nobody had told them to expect a pretty woman to dinner, and the Prince suggested an intriguing exoticism with his tarboosh.1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 743:
  • The man in the tarboosh turned finally and nodded in a strangely familiar way.2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 1215:

Forms of tarboosh

pluraltarbooshes

Origin of tarboosh

Borrowed from Arabic طَرْبُوش (ṭarbūš).

Words formed from tarboosh

Words that rhyme with tarboosh

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Questions about tarboosh

What does tarboosh mean?
Tarboosh means a red felt or cloth cap with a tassel, worn in the Arab world; a fez.
What is tarboosh in Tamil?
Tarboosh in Tamil is துருக்கிக் குல்லாய் வகை. See Tarboosh meaning in Tamil.
How do you use tarboosh in a sentence?
They were for their part astonished, for nobody had told them to expect a pretty woman to dinner, and the Prince suggested an intriguing exoticism with his tarboosh.
What part of speech is tarboosh?
Tarboosh is a noun.
How do you pronounce tarboosh?
Tarboosh is pronounced /tɑːˈbuːʃ/ (UK).
What is the plural of tarboosh?
The plural of tarboosh is tarbooshes.

Words near tarboosh in the dictionary

  1. tarboggining
  2. tarboggins
  3. Tarbolton
  4. tarbomb
  5. tarbombs
  6. tarboosh
  7. tarbooshed
  8. tarbooshes
  9. Tarboro
  10. tarbosaur
  11. tarbosaurs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tarboosh (page history and authors); tarboosh (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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