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tam-o'-shanter (n.)
c. 1840, type of bonnet formerly worn by Scottish plowmen, from
Tam O'Shanter
"Tom of Shanter," name of hero in a poem of the same name by Robert Burns, written 1790. The woolen cap became fashionable for ladies c. 1887.
