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  • A red-fezzed bellboy took them to a lift, mak­ing a ceremony out of turning the bronze handle forward till power gave the winch enough strength to lift the cage up to the first floor, where they were shown to two rooms.

    The Eternal Mercenary Sadler, Barry 1980

  • Without directly replying, the young man gave the order to the red-fezzed Arab in a red-girdled white robe who was removing the soiled tea things, and he assisted the girl into a chair and sat down facing her.

    The Palace of Darkened Windows Mary Hastings Bradley

  • She seemed to see the figure of the Turkish officer seated in her chair, just as the _concierge_ had described him, stout, fezzed, resting his legs before her fire -- or of the German, stretched back in the chair in the evening reading the copy of the _Westfälisches Volksblatt_ she had found stuffed down in the corner of the seat.

    The Happy Foreigner Enid Bagnold 1935

  • A group of high-fezzed soldiers, the policemen of the city, hung round him in compassion, questioning.

    Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 Marmaduke William Pickthall 1905

  • _camera obscura_ -- to which I as a fellow artist was given the _entrée_ by the proprietor, and in which one could see heavenly pictures of the surrounding landscape; there were also idle cabs with white awnings, and fezzed Turks perspiring under furs and rugs which they hawked for sale.

    The Belovéd Vagabond William John Locke 1896

  • a frock-coated, be-fezzed official sat writing at a desk.

    Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 Marmaduke William Pickthall 1905

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