tam-o'-shanter

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Noun
  • Katie Holmes looks too cool for school in a backwards baseball cap inside the Chanel Tribeca Festival Artists Dinner in New York City on June 8.
    Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 10 June 2026
  • Vinnie Pasquantino wore sunglasses and a royal blue T-shirt, with the brim of his white baseball cap lowered to his eyebrows.
    Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 9 June 2026
Noun
  • After Diego Lopes brutally knocked out Steve Garcia following a back-and-forth slugfest, Lopes put on his trademark cowboy hat and hopped up on the cage to celebrate with the crowd.
    Greg Rosenstein, NBC news, 15 June 2026
  • In his portrait for this World Cup, Sweden manager Graham Potter wore a cowboy hat, for example.
    Nick Miller, New York Times, 12 June 2026
Noun
  • The king also opted for pastel details for his look, pairing a gray suit with a yellow vest, a black top hat and black, lace-up patent leather dress shoes.
    Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 16 June 2026
  • The look featured a black and gold corset and red velvet overcoat, a top hat and tall boots.
    Hedy Phillips, PEOPLE, 8 June 2026
Noun
  • One of the most popular traditional costumes was the bauta, which consisted of a full mask, a cape that covered the head and shoulders, and a tricorn or cocked hat.
    Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Heather Wilson, a nurse anesthetist, wore huge fake eyelashes and an absurd cocked hat.
    William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 15 May 2021
Noun
  • Artist and designer Cecil Beaton performed a coy fashion magazine pose in full drag, his slender form crowned by an enormous picture hat that transforms him into something approaching a human flower, photographed by the duo David James Scott and Edgar Wilkinson.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2025
  • Okay, Emily is wearing a picture hat that makes her previous hat look tiny.
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 2 May 2025
Noun
  • Both of them wore their stocking caps pulled down beneath the hoods of their anoraks.
    Ann Patchett, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • When Mitchell broke into the house, she was dressed in all black, with a black stocking cap, and carried items such as a covered flashlight and a prybar.
    Ingrid Harbo, Twin Cities, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Signs of the former Muppets Courtyard were all but gone when USA TODAY was invited on a hard hat visit to the construction site in late May.
    Eve Chen, USA Today, 4 June 2026
  • Wearing a hard hat, the charter's principal, Justin Blietz, described his vision.
    Cory Turner, NPR, 19 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The garrison cap worn by her grandfather, Tech.
    ABC News, ABC News, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Mandatory class attire includes gray pants, a black pelt, gray button-up shirt and a garrison cap.
    Christopher Kamrani, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
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“Tam-o'-shanter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tam-o%27-shanter. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.

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