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
Eh?" across the newspaper to his commentatory wife, and was delighted by Tinka's new red tam o'shanter, and announced, "No class to that corrugated iron garage.
From Babbitt by Lewis, Sinclair
Every day, no matter what the weather, she might be seen, in her thick boots, burberry, and tam o'shanter, trudging along the roads or across the fields accompanied by the faithful collie.
From The House of Whispers by Le Queux, William
