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Pompon   /pˈɑmpˌɑn/   Listen
noun
Pompon  n.  
1.
Any trifling ornament for a woman's dress or bonnet.
2.
(Mil.) A tuft or ball of wool, or the like, sometimes worn by soldiers on the front of the hat (such as a shako), instead of a feather.
3.
(a)
A hardy garden chrysanthemum having buttonlike heads of flowers.
(b)
Any of several dwarf varieties of the Provence rose.
4.
The globe-shaped flower head characteristic of certain plants such as dahlias and chrysanthemums.
5.
A ball-shaped cluster of ribbons or streamers held in the hand and waved by some cheerleaders at team sports contests. See pompom girl. Called also pompom.





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"Pompon" Quotes from Famous Books



... The hat was a new one of brown straw trimmed with dark blue ribbon. She had felt rather proud of it when it came home from the milliner's the day before, and had considered the little blue pompon with which Miss Wilson, who was authority in matters of fashion in North Tolland, had enriched the middle bow, as a masterpiece of decoration. Alas! the apple of knowledge was at her lips; already she felt herself blush at the comments of these unknown girls whose ...
— A Little Country Girl • Susan Coolidge
... last of the song, and was about to turn away; but, the ape running out of the summer-house at the time, the jester put his head through the entrance, with a "Back! Pompon! back!" and ...
— Orrain - A Romance • S. Levett-Yeats


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