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(妇女用的)月经棉条,卫生栓 词源mid 19th cent.: from French, nasalized variant of tapon ‘plug, stopper’, ultimately of Germanic origin and related to tap (noun - sense 1).