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tasselled

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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.tasselled - fringed or adorned with tassels
tasseled
adorned, decorated - provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction
Translations
tasselled
adj → mit Quasten or Troddeln verziert
tasselled [ˈtæs/əld] adj → guarnito/a di nappe
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The sailors, in tasselled caps of red worsted, were getting the heavy tackles in readiness for the whales.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
Now, having heard his master's order to harness, he went as usual cheerfully and willingly to the shed, stepping briskly and easily on his rather turned-in feet; took down from a nail the heavy tasselled leather bridle, and jingling the rings of the bit went to the closed stable where the horse he was to harness was standing by himself.
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Lord Henry stroked his pointed brown beard and tapped the toe of his patent-leather boot with a tasselled ebony cane.
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