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

She then had a tam o’shanter designed from the same Scotch tartan.

From The Automobile Girls in the Berkshires The Ghost of Lost Man's Trail by Crane, Laura Dent

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