Hypertext Webster Gateway: "pompon"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pompon \Pom"pon\, n.
(a) A hardy garden chrysanthemum having buttonlike heads of
flowers.
(b) Any of several dwarf varieties of the Provence rose.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pompon \Pom"pon\, n. [F.]
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, instead of a feather.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
pompon
n 1: decoration consisting of a ball of tufted wool or silk;
usually worn on a hat [syn: {pom-pom}]
2: dusky gray food fish found from Louisiana and Florida
southward [syn: {black margate}, {Anisotremus surinamensis}]
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