songkok

plural songkoks

1. An Asian cap resembling a fez, worn mostly by male Muslims.

   He saw himself, in a smart suit and a songkok, bowed into the opulent suites of Ritzes and Waldorfs and baring, under dark glasses, a hairy chest to a milder sun by a snakeless sea.

   1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 302

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   Short and thick set, he almost invariably dressed in a Western business suit or a safari jacket once he gave up his military uniform, and a black songkok, the flat traditional Indonesian cap.

   2008 January 28, Marilyn Berger, “Suharto Dies at 86; Indonesian Dictator Brought Order and Bloodshed”, in New York Times