tam-o-shanter

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tam-o'-shan•ter

(ˈtæm əˌʃæn tər)

n.
a round, flat cap of Scottish origin, usu. of wool, with a pompom at its center.
[1880–85; after the hero of Tam O'Shanter (1791), poem by Robert Burns]
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