tam-o'-shanter

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tam-o'-shanter
Noun
  • Today he is dressed in all black, with a gray baseball cap pulled low over his eyes.
    Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025
  • However, a source tells PEOPLE that the apparent bruising in the photos, which show Richards running errands in Los Angeles wearing a baseball cap, is a result of a cosmetic procedure.
    Liza Esquibias, People.com, 6 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • In the sweet clip, MGK could be seen wearing a white cowboy hat, while his daughter matched in a pink sparkly cowboy hat.
    Kayla Grant, People.com, 1 Aug. 2025
  • The unit returns three starters who had at least 500 snaps in 2024 in Aidan Meek (6-5, 305), a Bakersfield native who will also wear his cowboy hat now and then; Sawyer Hays (6-6, 305) of Christian Brothers in Sacramento, and Kenndel Riley (6-3, 325) of Lincoln of Placer County.
    Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 1 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Clockwise from top: A 1957 Balenciaga hat, Deirdre Hawken’s Cauliflower Headpiece from 2013, a layered silk hat from the 1940s, and a 1942 Germaine Vittu hat.
    Nathan Heller, Vogue, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Yet, Halston does clock something of use from the experience: a young woman in the audience who, among the sweater sets, is wearing a colorful silk hat.
    Whitney Friedlander, Vulture, 14 May 2021
Noun
  • In Skillman’s play, directed by Jessi D. Hill and starring Megan Hill, a woman enters with the accoutrement of close-up magic, in top hat and tails, and then proceeds to perform illusions by description and miming alone.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 22 July 2025
  • There is a short person in a top hat in the foreground at right, facing away from the camera, staring at a growing city of homes, offices and other buildings.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 20 July 2025
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
  • She was dressed in all black with a black stocking cap.
    Ingrid Harbo, Twin Cities, 19 July 2025
  • Friends sent me stocking caps, soft blankets, fingerless gloves and slip-on shoes.
    Amy Bizzarri, Chicago Tribune, 5 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • This regulatory void raises concerns about exclusions for pre-existing conditions, potential service caps, and the absence of comprehensive coverage for preventive care.
    Richard Menger MD MPA, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
  • And blowing a whistle, a proletarian prophet in a red service cap.
    Ostap Kin, The New York Review of Books, 23 Mar. 2022
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“Tam-o'-shanter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tam-o%27-shanter. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.

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