What is "pompoms"

Usage examples of "pompoms".

The cheerleaders bounced about like irregular ping-pong balls, shaking their pompoms among other things and arousing the pep squad to frenzied squeals.

The drill team formed two lines and shook their pompoms among other things.

Mahlke who during the winter after the second summer on the barge created the pompoms: two little woolen spheres the size of ping-pong balls, in solid or mixed colors, attached to a plaited woolen cord that was worn under the collar like a necktie and tied into a bow so that the two pompoms hung at an angle, more or less like a bow tie.

I have checked and am able to state authoritatively that beginning in the third winter of the war, the pompoms came to be worn almost all over Germany, but mostly in northern and eastern Germany, particularly by high-school students.

We wore the pompoms for several months, toward the end as a protest, after Dr.

Klohse, our principal, had branded this article of apparel as effeminate and unworthy of a German young man, and forbidden us to wear pompoms inside the school building or even in the recreation yard.

I saw him, left right, fiddling with something on his neck, tugging, gagging, and at length tossing something under his bench: something woolen, pompoms, a green and red mixture I think they were.

When he introduced the pompom vogue, I was the first to take it up and wear pompoms on my neck.

Schiller: no tie, no pompoms, no pendants, no screwdriver, nor any other item from his copious arsenal.

One of them had a pair of red-and-white pompoms, and she led the others in a cheer.