tam o'shanter
Example Sentences
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Call him a mad scientist in a tam o’shanter cap.
From Washington Times • Sep. 20, 2020
If you arrived at a yacht race wearing plus-fours and a tam o’shanter, Commodore Vanderbilt would dunk you.
From Washington Post • May 20, 2019
An example of something gallus, he said, would be Usain Bolt's donning of a tartan tam o'shanter after winning gold with Jamaica's 4x100m relay team on Saturday night.
From The Guardian • Aug. 3, 2014
So next morning, soon after breakfast, the children put on all the warmest wraps they could find, and in tam o'shanter caps, tippets, mittens and leggings, started out for their Ourday fun.
From Marjorie's New Friend by Wells, Carolyn
They wore blouses of the same material and tam o'shanter hats to match, called b�rets.
From "And they thought we wouldn't fight" by Gibbons, Floyd
