tarboosh : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: tarboosh	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for tarboosh
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tarboosh n a felt cap (usually red) for a man; shaped like a flat- topped cone with a tassel that hangs from the crown Synonym(s): fez, tarboosh
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tarboosh \Tar*boosh"\, n. [Ar. tarb[?]sh; perhaps from Per. sar-posh headdress: cf. F. tarbouch.] A red cap worn by Turks and other Eastern nations, sometimes alone and sometimes swathed with linen or other stuff to make a turban. See {Fez}.