tam-o'-shanter

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Noun
  • Surveillance footage from inside the Capitol showed Hemphill making her way inside and walking through the Capitol Rotunda wearing a blue baseball cap and a pink scarf, the Idaho Statesman previously reported.
    Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 22 Jan. 2025
  • The couple kept the outing casual, with Dunn, 24, sporting simple jeans and a hoodie paired with a lime green baseball cap—meanwhile, Coughlan donned a long black trench coat with a light yellow sweater underneath.
    Rachel Raposas, People.com, 21 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Downtown saw more cowboy hats, bolo ties and big shiny belt buckles than usual this weekend as the second annual San Diego Rodeo took over Petco Park for three nights.
    Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Buck stands under the soft glow of Tiffany-style fixtures, his guitar slung casually over his shoulders and his brown cowboy hat casting a shadow over his black denim jacket.
    Maxwell Williams, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 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
  • Each has a black top hat with a mirror on top, which Bubbles uses to flirt with men in the audience.
    Marya E. Gates, IndieWire, 13 Jan. 2025
  • In the large window division, first place was awarded to Southwest Connection, which had a Native American theme and in second place went to Sweet Elizabeth Jane whose top hats looked toward New Year’s Eve celebrations.
    Janet Kusterer, Baltimore Sun, 8 Jan. 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
  • First-off, there might not be a Casey’s or Kwik Trip between the Twin Cities and New Ulm that carries a blaze orange stocking cap.
    Tribune News Service, Orange County Register, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Prisoners were given numbers instead of names, had a chain attached to one leg, and were dressed in smocks and stocking caps.
    Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 6 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • And blowing a whistle, a proletarian prophet in a red service cap.
    Ostap Kin, The New York Review of Books, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Thomas Redgate shows a smiling 24-year-old, a service cap crowning his head, a tan tie and shirt underneath his dress uniform.
    Denise Coffey, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2021
Noun
  • Going high hat just did not fit, and on Sept. 9, 1927, the Bernheimer flags came down.
    Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 4 June 2022
  • It’s one of those ABBA songs that fools you with its mirror ball synths, a classic disco rhythm on the high hat and lush harmonizing.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2021
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