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chechia|ˈʃeɪʃɪə|
Also checchia, etc.
[Fr. chéchia, ad. Maghribi Arab. šāšīya, f. Arab. Šāš, name of a town in Transoxiana.]
A cylindrical tufted cap or fez worn by Arabs and formerly by French troops in Africa.
1853J. Richardson Narr. Mission Central Afr. I. 206, I..offered him..a shasheeah (or fez). 1909W. J. Locke Septimus xiii, He [sc. a Zouave]..swaggered off, his chechia at the very back of his head. 1923Chambers's Jrnl. 331/1 A small procession of natives in red checchias. 1924R. Hichens After the Verdict iii. i, An omnibus..driven by a big Arab in European clothes and a chechia. 1968F. van W. Mason Deadly Orbit Mission ii. 26 The wiry little man..was wearing his inevitable chéchia or dull-red fez. |