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 (such as a shako), instead of a feather.
3.
(a)
A hardy garden chrysanthemum having buttonlike heads of flowers.
(b)
Any of several dwarf varieties of the Provence rose.
4.
The globe-shaped flower head characteristic of certain plants such as dahlias and chrysanthemums.
5.
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.
... plucked from the damp pine forest, scattered there, and oftener rude wreaths hung upon the little pine cross. Most of these wreaths were formed of a sweet-scented grass which the children loved to keep in their desks, entwined with the pompon-like plumes of the buckeye and syringa, the wood anemone, and here and there the master noticed the dark blue cowl of the monk's-hood or deadly aconite. One day, during a walk, in crossing a wooded ridge, he came upon ... — The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales • Bret Harte
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