Definition of "tam-o'-shanter" [tam•-o'-shan•ter]

• A tight-fitting Scottish cap or braided bonnet, sometimes having a pompon, tassel, or feather in the center. (noun)

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• "And she must tell me how Nelson had died, and I did want to know; so I went with her across the width of life from dawning boy's love for a brown-haired girl in a tam-o'-shanter back to the old sad savagery I had known."
• "A fisherman's tam-o'-shanter on his close-clipped head, and dungaree trousers and heavy brogans, completed his outfit."
• "They're 21st-century versions of Ralph Kramden in his tam-o'-shanter and Ed Norton learning the game's basics in Ralph's Bensonhurst kitchen."