Meaning

noun a city in north central Morocco; religious center

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

originFrom Ottoman Turkish فس (fes) (modern Turkish fes), named after Fez, Morocco, (capital of the Kingdom of Morocco until 1927), where the dye to color the hat was extracted from crimson berries.

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