fez

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Recent Examples of fez Louboutin, wearing a fez, brought Natasha Poonawalla in a face-framing Harris Reed creation. Miles Socha, WWD, 6 Oct. 2024 The kaffiyeh thus became a symbol of solidarity uniting working class Palestinians with the upper-class, who would typically also wear a fez. Solcyré Burga, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024 Just as thoughtful and painstaking is the service: upon arrival, our bags were whisked away by porters in delightful red cloaks and matching fez caps, and we were led up to a leafy seating area overlooking the city to complete our check-in over Moroccan mint tea. Liam Hess, Vogue, 5 July 2024 But as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry hints in The Little Prince, fault also lay with the Europeans, whose prejudices led them to see these reforms as necessary and, say, to take Turks in top hats more seriously than Turks in fezzes. Nick Danforth, Foreign Affairs, 6 Jan. 2015 See all Example Sentences for fez 
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Noun
  • Then armed men in black turbans, as if to justify their fear, opened fire into the crowd.
    Jazzmin Jiwa, TIME, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Young people copied her contemporary African fashion sense, wearing a turban with a formal suit or painting tribal dots on her face as part of her makeup.
    Lynsey Chutel, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The name comes from the distinctive head gear used, which are of course, green berets.
    Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Tara Lipinski's Daughter Georgie Is 'Reunited' with Mom's Skating Partner Johnny Weir: 'Just the Cutest' On the stroll around the streets of Paris, Georgia exchanged her baby pink beret for a baby pink hair bow headband.
    Emma Aerin Becker, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • Big blue sombrero Monday, November 25, 2024: The James Webb Space Telescope's brand-new image of the Sombrero Galaxy casts this city of stars in a new light — mid-infrared light, to be precise — and reveals clumps of dust in a mottled outer ring.
    Space.com Staff, Space.com, 1 Jan. 2025
  • By the 1990s, the chain boasted over 200 locations, serving up chimichangas and celebratory sombreros to families across parts of America.
    Stephanie Gravalese, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Couldn’t imagine the owner of San Francisco Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star restaurant Atelier Crenn and one of the most respected toques in the world doing anything less, right?
    DeMarco Williams, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Stan Michalski is the top toque in the Victorian house kitchen.
    Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • Splashed across his chocolate brown skullcap was the Arc’teryx logo, large and neon yellow.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 22 Jan. 2025
  • The Ordinary Multi-Peptide Hair Density Serum $23 at Amazon The leave-in formula targets to support the scalp with the nutrients and ingredients like larch wood, Chinese skullcap, and wheat kernel extracts to help grow thicker hair and promote fullness.
    Christina Shepherd McGuire, Southern Living, 20 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Silky and Beautiful arrived in their usual finery, Silky wearing a red fedora and fur coat and Beautiful spraying hair spray everywhere.
    Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Think Indiana Jones, with the whip and fedora, setting off on a daring quest for treasure or profits, in this case.
    B.D. Dalton, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The look has become synonymous with the girl group and continues to be recreated today, even as a Halloween costume. 02 Queen Latifah in 1990 Queen Latifah embraced her heritage from the beginning of her career, proudly donning a colorful kufi and a matching outfit with statement gold earrings.
    Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Polite conversation soon turns edgy after Akbar explains his kufi was personally given to him by Louis Farrakhan — something that doesn’t sit well with Shelley (her comedic slow-burn anger is one of the things Louis-Dreyfus can play better than most actresses).
    Rene Rodriguez, Variety, 20 Jan. 2023
Noun
  • Many delegations treat the convention like senior week and wear matching outfits—Hawaii’s were obviously the best, but the Wisconsin delegates had their traditional postmodern tricornes shaped like cheese.
    Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Johnson made this conversation explicit by name-checking or picturing Evans, Lee Friedlander, Duane Michals, and Richard Avedon—the latter pops up here in a picture on a book cover, which Johnson has topped with a pirate’s tricorne hat.
    Vince Aletti, The New Yorker, 22 July 2022

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