tampon
noun/ˈtæmpɒn/
/ˈtæmpɑːn/
- a piece of cotton material with a special shape that a woman puts inside her vagina to hold blood during her period compare sanitary towelWord Originmid 19th cent.: from French, nasalized variant of tapon ‘plug, stopper’, ultimately of Germanic origin and related to tap (noun - sense 1).
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