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Examples

  • She wore a tam-o '- shanter, and I thought her brown hair the prettiest shade of brown

    Chapter 18 2010

  • Only instead of goofy tam-o--shanters, shamrocks, and smiles, they were wearing black steel ballistic helmets, automatic weapons, and deadly serious frowns.

    Step on a Crack Patterson, James, 1947- 2007

  • Golf was a Japanese version of America, played in plus fours and tam-o--shanters, celebrated on the nineteenth hole with a round bought by the highest score.

    December 6 Smith, Martin Cruz 2002

  • She wears a blue tam-o 'shanter and has an ankle like a fairy tale.

    Kathleen Christopher Morley 1923

  • She wore a tam-o '- shanter, and I thought her brown hair the prettiest shade of brown

    Chapter XVIII 1913

  • Benjamin tried on the tam-o '- shanter, but it was too big for him.

    The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter Beatrix Potter 1904

  • Benjamin tried on the tam-o '- shanter, but it was too big for him.

    The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter Beatrix Potter 1904

  • Benjamin tried on the tam-o '- shanter, but it was too big for him.

    The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter Beatrix Potter 1904

  • Glendolene Kimmel arrived at the courthouse wearing a red tam-o’-shanter.

    THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

  • The professor was wearing the uniform for the moor’s human intruders: plus fours, a tweed jacket, and a tam-o’-shanter.

    Day of the Dandelion Peter Pringle 2007

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