Pom"pon (?), n. [F.]
1.
Any trifling ornament for a woman's dress or bonnet.
2. (Mil.)
A tuft or ball of wool, or the like, sometimes worn by soldiers on the front of the hat, instead of a feather.
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Pom"pon (?), n.
(a)
A hardy garden chrysanthemum having buttonlike heads of flowers.
(b)
Any of several dwarf varieties of the Provence rose.
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