NOUN
- a felt cap (usually red) for a man; shaped like a flat-topped cone with a tassel that hangs from the crown
How To Use tarboosh In A Sentence
- A dying craft, tarbooshes never seem to be anywhere except on the heads of tourists or in souvenir shops.
- But the oil sheikhs and Wahhabi sheikhs were viewed as men of the “tarboosh” and mocking them was necessary in Arab political literature, even in café discussions. Tuesday, January 27, 2009
- Just like the flag, the tarboosh was a national emblem.
- Outside the presence Dicky unbuttoned his coat like an Englishman again, and ten minutes later flung his tarboosh into a corner of the room; for the tarboosh was the sign of official servitude, and Dicky was never the perfect official. The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
- The room was full of Egyptians, sitting drinking black coffee with the red tarbooshes on their heads.
- A servant answered it; his dark coloring and tarboosh were Egyptian, though he wore the neatly cut suit of a European butler. HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
- The rest of the party consists of two Arabs of the pure desert stock; thin, wiry men, deeply bronzed, and with hollow cheeks, and eyes of almost evil brightness; on their heads red tarbooshes; over their abas, and wrapping the left shoulder and the body so as to leave the right arm free, brown woollen haicks, or blankets. Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ
- Whilst you're about it, perhaps you could suggest the name of a local emporium in which a fellow might purchase a tarboosh?
- The basic hat is a tarboosh or fez that P. says will make most British viewers of a certain age think of the comedian Tommy Cooper. Peter’s search for details on a “mystery fez” | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit"
- One of them had a tarboosh sitting on top of it, the little red fez that the Ottomans had required their subjects to wear—the symbol of a man. Day of Honey
