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Definition: Tarboosh |
TarbooshNoun1. A felt cap (usually red) for a man; shaped like a flat-topped cone with a tassel that hangs from the crown. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tarboosh" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1888. (references) |
Synonym: TarbooshSynonym: fez (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clothing | Headdress, headgear; chapeau, crush hat, opera hat; kaffiyeh; sombrero, jam, tam-o-shanter, tarboosh, topi, sola topi, pagri, puggaree; cap, hat, beaver hat, coonskin cap; castor, bonnet, tile, wideawake, wimple; nightcap, mobcap, skullcap; hood, coif; capote, calash; kerchief, snood, babushka; head, coiffure; crown; (circle); chignon, pelt, wig, front, peruke, periwig, caftan, turban, fez, shako, csako, busby; kepi, forage cap, bearskin; baseball cap; fishing hat; helmet; mask, domino. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tarboosh | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tarboosh"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | qeloshe (tarbrush). (various references) | |
Arabic | طربوش (fez). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | мюсюлмански фес. (various references) | |
French | tarbouch, chéchia. (various references) | |
Greek | φέσι (drunk, fez, flop). (various references) | |
Hungarian | fez (fez, fezzes). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arbooshtay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tarbuche. (various references) | |
Russian | феска (fez, fez 2). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | fes (fez). (various references) | |
Swedish | fez (fez). (various references) | |
Turkish | fes (fez). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tarboosh": tarbooshes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-h-o-o-r-s-t" | |
-2 letters: abhors, aborts, bathos, bhoots, boarts, booths, borsht, broths, robots, taboos, tabors, throbs, torahs. | |
-3 letters: abhor, abort, bahts, baths, bhoot, boars, boart, boast, boats, boors, boost, booth, boots, boras, borts, botas, brash, brats, broos, broth, harts, hoars, hobos, hoots, horas, horst, hosta, oaths, ortho, ratos, roast, robot, roost, roots, rotas, rotos, sabot, shoat. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-h-o-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: bathrooms, hardboots. | |
+2 letters: tarbooshes. | |
+3 letters: broadcloths, houseboater, trophoblast. | |
+4 letters: botherations, houseboaters, motherboards, thoroughbass, thromboxanes, trophoblasts. | |
+5 letters: claustrophobe, opisthobranch, thrombokinase, trophoblastic. | |
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