Certain officers on the march used, however, to wear the _fez_, or, as the Arabs called it, the _chechia_. ❋ Various (N/A)
He lies in his bed in European fashion, and even makes a charming picture with his peaceful black face between the white sheets and the red chechia. ❋ Felix, Klein (1915)
His dress was that of a miniature man; a white silk burnous, embroidered with gold, over a pale blue vest, stitched in many colours; a splendid red cloak, whose embroidery of stiff gold stood out like a bas-relief; a turban and chechia of thin white muslin; and red-legged boots finer than those of the Spahis. ❋ Unknown (1901)
She wished half unconsciously that Stephen Knight could see her, with hair looped in two great shining braids on either side her face, under the sequined chechia of sapphire velvet; and then she was ashamed of her own vanity. ❋ Unknown (1901)
He wore full uniform, was fully equipped, crimson chechia, snowy gaiters, and terrible sabre-bayonet. ❋ Unknown (1899)
In due course he got through the distemper without accident, but for fear of chills he continued to wear the chechia and monk's dress in the house some time after his recovery, and he was so discovered by Mr. and Mrs. Mark Pattison when they paid us an unexpected visit. ❋ Hamerton, Philip G (1896)
However, he would not take to his bed, but remained in his study with a good fire at night, sleeping upon an ottoman or in an arm-chair, wrapped up in his monk's dress, and the head covered with an Algerian chechia. ❋ Hamerton, Philip G (1896)
Despite the picturesque nature of their new mode of transport our lion hunters were forced to dismount, out of regard for the chechia. ❋ Alphonse Daudet (1868)
The camel pitched and rolled like a frigate in a rough sea and the chechia responded to the motion as it had on the Zouave. ❋ Alphonse Daudet (1868)
At the end of a few strides Tartarin felt he was losing colour, and the heroic chechia assumed one by one its former positions in the days of sailing in the Zouave. ❋ Alphonse Daudet (1868)
The arrival of Tartarin, haggard, thin, covered in dust, with blazing eyes and bristling chechia cut short this enjoyable Turco-Marseillaise orgy. ❋ Alphonse Daudet (1868)
Position Fourth: at six in the afternoon, with the Corsican coast in view; the unfortunate chechia hangs over the ship's side, and lamentably stares down as though to plumb the depths of ocean. ❋ Alphonse Daudet (1868)
Tartarin's chechia during the three days of the passage from France to ❋ Alphonse Daudet (1868)
It has, of course, to be admitted that over the preceding three days the chechia had had a pretty rough time. ❋ Alphonse Daudet (1868)
It is the chechia, the heroic chechia, now reduced to the vulgar status of a night-cap, and jammed down to the ears of a pallid and convulsing invalid. ❋ Alphonse Daudet (1868)
Full white linen trousers, small tight vest with metal buttons, a red sash two feet wide around the waist, the neck bare and the forehead shaven, and a vast red fez, or chechia, on his head, with something like a long blue tassel thereto. ❋ Alphonse Daudet (1868)
The wretched chechia is leaning over the rail and sadly contemplating the depths of the ocean. ❋ Alphonse Daudet (1868)
And in pronouncing these words the brave Tartarin shook the tassel of his chechia as if it were a mane. ❋ Alphonse Daudet (1868)
Not that the sea was rough or that the chechia had to much to suffer, but because whenever he appeared on the deck the camel made such a ridiculous fuss of its master. ❋ Alphonse Daudet (1868)
Tartarin, in spite of his weapons, his terrible grimace and his red chechia, had not felt entirely at ease in the presence of the photographer and the two ladies of the third Hussars. ❋ Alphonse Daudet (1868)
