Befezzed
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /bɪˈfɛzd/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Befezzed is an adjective meaning Wearing a fez (“a felt hat shaped like a truncated cone with a tassel attached”); fezzed.
Meaning
Wearing a fez (“a felt hat shaped like a truncated cone with a tassel attached”); fezzed.
Example Sentences
One of the befezzed gentlemen produced a velvet case. Inside was a bed of silk, and the Acorn of Ankara fitted perfectly into a small hollow.
[Y]ou have but to clap your hands, and lo! a slave appears, and a very picturesque slave he is, with head befezzed, and full trousers reaching to the knees; [...]
We can see the befezzed Turk in his bazaar dealng out his wares of pipes, tobacco, and trinkets, and the Japanese in his café concert most monotonously marring music, and astounding gaping wonder.
By September 7, 1922, every Greek in Smyrna, including Lefty Stephanides, is wearing a fez in order to pass as a Turk. [...] Lefty, newly moneyed and befezzed, makes his way through the maroon-capped crowd at the quay.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include fezzed, fedoraed, felty, fuckfaced, fustianed, fuzzifying.
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