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noun

Pompon n.

Any trifling ornament for a woman's dress or bonnet.

(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.

(a)

A hardy garden chrysanthemum having buttonlike heads of flowers.

(b)

Any of several dwarf varieties of the Provence rose.

The globe-shaped flower head characteristic of certain plants such as dahlias and chrysanthemums.

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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pompon" Quotes from Famous Books

... [18] Pompon Dig. I. 2. 2.47 (quoted by Teuffel). Primus Divus Augustus, ut maior iuris auctoritas haberetur, constituit ut ex auctoritate ...

— A History of Roman Literature - From the Earliest Period to the Death of Marcus Aurelius • Charles Thomas Cruttwell

... Further, Cyprian says (Ad Pompon, de Virgin., Ep. lxii), "By their very intercourse, their blandishments, their converse, their embraces, those who are associated in a sleep that knows neither honor nor shame, acknowledge their disgrace and crime." Therefore by doing ...

— Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) • Thomas Aquinas

... the actor showed himself none the less exacting. According to his ideas, Deborah, the tragedienne at the Odeon—a Greek statue!—had too large hands, and the fascinating Blanche Pompon at the Varietes was ...

— A Romance of Youth, Complete • Francois Coppee

... doubt that Ennius wrote "in altisono mundi clypeo," of which coeli was a gloss, naturally introduced by those who were ignorant of the use of mundus in the same sense. The same error has taken place in some of the MSS. of Virg. Georg. i. 5, 6. Compare the commentators on Pompon. Mela. ...

— The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. • Euripides

Words linked to "Pompon" : Anisotremus surinamensis, pom-pom