Crossword clues for pompon
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pompon \Pom"pon\, n. [F.]
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 hardy garden chrysanthemum having buttonlike heads of flowers.
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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A bundle of yarn, string, ribbon, etc. tied in the middle and left loose at the ends, so as to form a puff or ball, as for decoration or a showy prop for cheerleading. 2 A hardy garden chrysanthemum with button-like flower heads. 3 Any of several dwarf varieties of the Provence rose.
WordNet
n. decoration consisting of a ball of tufted wool or silk; usually worn on a hat [syn: pom-pom]
dusky gray food fish found from Louisiana and Florida southward [syn: black margate, Anisotremus surinamensis]
Usage examples of "pompon".
She wore a gown of pale saffron trimmed with three bouquets of pompon roses mixed with green.
He can no longer fool himself into believing that Stacey Lieberman has or ever had a crush on him, especially since she got breasts and became an alternate on the pompon squad.
He had curly white fluff around his ankles and a white pompon of hair on his short little tail.
It was a small pompon of emerald green silk, with some ragged threads hanging from it, as though it had been wrenched violently away.
The circumstances in which the green pompon was found suggested at once that it had been torn from the costume of the murderer.
We went up the porch steps together, and he looked down at the pompons in my hand.
It was no fist at all, more like a meat ball, two little meat balls, two rosy pompons swinging from abbreviated arms.
She wore two great pompons of the same flowers at the sides of her head.
Mordaunt did not then understand prevented the final sale of an estate already little better than a pompons incumbrance.
The high school cheerleader simply changed the color of her pompons and skirt, and learned the new and much fancier routines of the college sidelines.
She was wearing nothing but a short salmon-pink nylon nightdress and faded baby-blue mules with pompons on them.
The Bond Street man stripped away all the velvet and morocco, plucked up the Turkey carpet, draped the scuttle-ports with pale yellow cretonne garnished with orange pompons, subdued the glare of the skylight by a blind of oriental silk, covered the divans with Persian saddlebags, the floor with a delicate Indian matting, and furnished the saloon with all that was most feminine in the way of bamboo chairs and tea-tables, Japanese screens and fans of gorgeous colouring.
I see you have had the misfortune to lose one of your green pompons, the one on the shoulder here.
They performed their stylized dances, shaking their pompons to the right and to the left while Philip sat with his hands clasped between his knees.
It was no fist at all, more like a meat ball, two little meat balls, two rosy pompons swinging from abbreviated arms.