Tarboosh

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tɑːˈbuːʃ/

Origin

From Arabic طربوس (ʈarbūsh).

Full definition of tarboosh

Noun

1. A red felt or cloth cap with a tassel, worn in the Arab world; a fez.
• 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, "":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.
• 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 743: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.
• 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 1215:The man in the tarboosh turned finally and nodded in a strangely familiar way.