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tasseled

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tas·sel  (tsl)
n.
1. A bunch of loose threads or cords bound at one end and hanging free at the other, used as an ornament on curtains or clothing, for example.
2. Something that resembles such an ornament, especially the pollen-bearing inflorescence of a corn plant.
v. tas·seled or tas·selled, tas·sel·ing or tas·sel·ling, tas·sels
v.tr.
To fringe or decorate with tassels.
v.intr.
To put forth a tassellike inflorescence. Used especially of corn.
[Middle English, from Old French, fastening, clasp, from Vulgar Latin *tassellus, blend of Latin tessella, small die; see tessellate, taxillus, diminutive of tlus, knucklebone, ankle.]
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Adj.1.tasseled - fringed or adorned with tassels
tasselled
adorned, decorated - provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction
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The moon was at full and drew out the scent of the tasseled crop.
From Mine Own People by Kipling, Rudyard View in context
It would have been worth any price if the father of this hopeful youth could have stepped on board some time, and seen him standing high on the fore-castle, pea jacket, tasseled red fez, buckskin patch and all, placidly contemplating the ocean--a rare spectacle for any body's drawing-room.
The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
Be this conceit of mine as it may, gentlemen, at all events Steelkilt was a tall and noble animal with a head like a Roman, and a flowing golden beard like the tasseled housings of your last viceroy's snorting charger; and a brain, and a heart, and a soul in him, gentlemen, which had made Steelkilt Charlemagne, had he been born son to Charlemagne's father.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
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