tarboosh

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsfez

   Broadercap

Other forms of tarboosh

plural

tarbooshes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tarboosh

What does tarboosh mean?

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

How many syllables are in tarboosh?

tarboosh has 2 syllables: tar-boosh. The stress falls on "tar".

What is another word for tarboosh?

Close synonyms include fez. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tarboosh a common word?

tarboosh is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.