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
Her hair, cut short just below the ears, fell smoothly from underneath a jaunty velvet tam o'shanter of graceful line.
From The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) by Blasco Ib??ez, Vicente
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
