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Webster 1913 Edition


Pompon

Pom′pon

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Noun.
[F.]
1.
Any trifling ornament for a woman’s dress or bonnet.

Definition 2024


Pompon

Pompon

See also: pompon

German

Noun

Pompon m (genitive Pompons, plural Pompons)

  1. (prop for cheerleeding) pompon
  2. (clothing accessoire) pompon, bobble

Synonyms

  • (clothing accessoire) Bommel

Declension

pompon

pompon

See also: Pompon

English

Pompons of the sort used for cheerleading.

Alternative forms

Noun

pompon (plural pompons)

  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.

Translations


French

Etymology

Possibly from a root *pomp-, used to express roundness, or related to pompe.

Noun

pompon m (plural pompons)

  1. pompon (bundle of yarn, string, ribbon, etc.)

Italian

Noun

pompon m (invariable)

  1. pompom, pompon

Middle French

Etymology 1

Variant of pepon, borrowing from Latin peponem, accusative singular of pepō.

Noun

pompon m (plural pompons)

  1. melon
  2. cucumber

Etymology 2

pompe + -on.

Noun

pompon m (plural pompons)

  1. decorative tassel