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Date: 1800-1900
Language: French
Origin: , from an unrecorded Old French taper 'to stop up a hole'

tampon

 noun
     
tam‧pon [countable]
M a tube-shaped mass of cotton or similar material that a woman puts inside her vagina during her period (=monthly flow of blood)
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