befezzed

We can see the befezzed Turk in his bazaar dealng out his wares of pipes, tobacco, and trinkets, and the Japanese in his café concert most monotonously marring music, and astounding gaping wonder.

1878 July 3, A. Sheffield Smith, “The Paris Exhibition and Its Aids”, in Capital and Labour: A Weekly Journal of Facts and Arguments on Questions Relating to Employers and Employed, volume V, London: […] Wyman & Sons, […], →OCLC, page 425, column 1

[W]e are at once struck with the extraordinary nature of the fact that these intense individualities, these nations of widely different origin, [...] are contained in the circuit of a single empire; and we wonder what force it is which compels the strange cohesion. Surely it is not the sword of yonder cross-legged, lethargic, beturbanned, or befezzed being, who, pipe in mouth, looks softly out of his dark eyes with a half-expressed disdain!

1879 January, “Art. V.—1. The People of Turkey: Twenty Years’ Residence among Bulgarians, Greeks, Albanians, Turks, and Armenians. By a Consul’s Daughter and Wife. […] 2. The Romance of Missions: or, Inside Views of Life and Labour in the Land of Ararat. By Maria A. West. […]”, in The London Quarterly Review, volume LI, number CII, London: Wesleyan Conference Office, […], →OCLC, page 406

No one who knows Constantinople will be surprised to learn that a brisk trade is done in the readjustment of the fez, for the greater part of the male population is befezzed, and it is essential to the well-being of every wearer of a fez, that his headdress shall preserve its pristine stiffness, [...]

1883 June 23, “Trades’-Guilds of Constantinople. [From All the Year Round.]”, in Littel’s Living Age, volume XLII (Fifth Series; volume CLVII overall), number 2035, Boston, Mass.: Littel & Co., →OCLC, part I, page 749

From inside my taxi I watched theaters, cinemas, bookstores, bars, video shops, and cafes flash past, all set in the dusty stone motifs of Cairo Crazy architecture: mansard roofs with sphinx gargoyles, Catholic statues, Stalin gothic, and those coppery statues of befezzed heroes: Talaat Harb, Suleiman Pasha, Saad Zaghloul.

1990, Peter Theroux, chapter 1984, in Sandstorms: Days and Nights in Arabia, New York, N.Y.; London: W[illiam] W[arder] Norton & Company, →ISBN, pages 166–167

By September 7, 1922, every Greek in Smyrna, including Lefty Stephanides, is wearing a fez in order to pass as a Turk. [...] Lefty, newly moneyed and befezzed, makes his way through the maroon-capped crowd at the quay.

2002, Jeffrey Eugenides, “An Immodest Proposal”, in Middlesex, paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Picador, published August 2003, →ISBN, book 1, page 60