See Also: Pleistocene(medicine)
Pleistocene(dictionary)
Pleistocene(dictionary)
Pleistocene Epoch(encyclopedia)

tam-o'-shanter (iou) and Pleistocene (oh)


tam-o'-shanter (iou)



tam-o'-shanter noun. M19.
[Tam o' Shanter, (the hero of) a poem by Robert Burns (1790).]
A round woollen bonnet or cloth cap of Scottish origin fitting closely round the brows but large and full above. Also more fully tam-o'-shanter bonnet, tam-o'-shanter cap. Cf. TAM, TAMMY noun3.

Pleistocene (oh)



[Date: 1800-1900; Language: Greek; Origin: pleistos 'most' + kainos 'recent']
belonging to the period in the Earth's history that started about two million years ago and ended about 10,000 years ago, when much of the Earth was covered with ice