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tarbush

tarbush is the alternative form of tarboosh.

Meaning of tarboosh

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...

Forms of tarbush

pluraltarbushes

Questions about tarbush

What is tarbush the alternative form of?
Tarbush is the alternative form of tarboosh.

Words near tarbush in the dictionary

  1. tarbrush
  2. tarbrushes
  3. Tarbuck Bay
  4. tarbucket
  5. tarbuckets
  6. tarbush
  7. tarbushes
  8. tarbuttite
  9. tarcheal
  10. Tarcombe
  11. tarcrete

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tarbush (page history and authors); tarboosh (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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