Possible Clues:

• A decorative tuft or ball
• Tuft on a tam
• Decorative tuft on shoes etc.
• Might this get fired on top of your hat?
• Cannonball?
• Cheerleader's ball of material
• Tightly-clustered flower; garment decoration
• Woolly decoration, an order presented after ceremony
• Ball of ornamental tuft, for cheerleaders perhaps
• It may be shaken by a court