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
Within, beneath the folds of tissue paper, lay two pretty dresses, a blue serge school dress and a fluffy, shimmery party frock; beneath them a gay sweater and tam o'shanter.
From Highacres by Richards, Harriet Roosevelt
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
