tarboosh

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun a felt cap (usually red) for a man; shaped like a flat-topped cone with a tassel that hangs from the crown

From Arabic طَرْبُوش (ṭarbūš).

The chief proprietor of the kibitkas I had taken was the patriarch or leading man of the village--a Tartar of venerable aspect, wearing a pelisse or long robe of blue stuff, with a small black lambskin cap, not unlike an Egyptian tarboosh, from under which his white hair flowed upon his shoulders. — One of the Six Hundred: A Novel, James Grant
A Turkish officer with an immense plume of feathers (the Janizaries were supposed to be still in existence, and the tarboosh had not as yet displaced the ancient and majestic head-dress of the true believers) was seen couched on a divan, and making believe to puff at a narghile, in which, however, for the sake of the ladies, only a fragrant pastille was allowed to smoke. — Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray

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