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tassel

[tas-uhl] / ˈtæs əl /




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Those still open tend to have generators, menus priced in dollars and a clientele of well-connected Cubans, decked in salmon shirts and tassel loafers.

From Barron's Aug. 18, 2026

The traditional velvet cap features embroidered initials, button and tassel and a hand-embroidered clementine in honour of his wife Clementine.

From BBC Mar. 26, 2024

A smaller tassel allows more light to reach the leaves.

From Science Magazine Oct. 25, 2023

Corn relies on the wind to carry its pollen from tassel to silk.

From Seattle Times Jun. 24, 2023

Nyame took the tassel and tied a small charm onto it.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

For the life of me, I can’t figure out the correct way to tie the gown’s tassels.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 17, 2026

In keeping with the tradition of Yuletide pullovers, Yiayia knits a bright-red Christmas sweater adorned with tassels and bells for her grandson’s dog.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 4, 2025

Tutus, frills and tassels were all spotted on the runway - with Stella McCartney stealing the show with her asymmetric dresses in soft fabrics.

From BBC Dec. 31, 2024

And she does accessorize in other areas of her life, too, she said, pointing to various tassels she has for her Bogg Bag.

From Slate Jul. 29, 2024

Their long embroidered kilts had seen better days: The colors were faded and the tassels frayed or missing entirely.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

The set replicates the characteristics of the actual room in Albany, down to two heavily tasseled flags — one American, one New York state.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 7, 2026

Jay Kay arrived to a scream of recognition from older members of the audience, suited up in a tasseled white cowboy jacket and pink jeans.

From BBC Jun. 20, 2025

The scene was a vibrant pastorale, rendered in thousands of shimmering sequins and beads that filled a nine-foot-wide canvas with a red tasseled border.

From New York Times Jan. 25, 2023

January 2023 comes in shiny tasseled loafers and constituent messaging.

From Slate Jan. 4, 2023

Using his razor-sharp fangs he began gnawing into the ancient tapestry, working from the tasseled hem upwards.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

There are reports were corn in southern Illinois is only 2 to 3 feet tall and tasseling, he said.

From Reuters Jun. 28, 2012

The harsh weather arrived just as the corn was entering its crucial tasseling stage and kernels were starting to form.

From Time Magazine Archive

Barring disaster, his 42 acres of tall tasseling corn will be worth at least $2,500 in October.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some corn is tasseling weeks ahead of schedule, and an early harvest is in prospect.

From Time Magazine Archive

The early grain fields have already caught the color of the sun, and the tasseling corn rustles its broad leaves above the rich loam that the woodcock delights to bore.

From In New England Fields and Woods by Rowland E. (Evans) Robinson

A tasselled blue Texan-style ensemble -- complete with a cowboy hat for the robot -- and a retro silver puffer jacket were among the looks showcased at the event on Thursday.

From Barron's May 29, 2026

There were also velvet suits, unbuttoned silky shirts and tasselled dresses and skirts.

From Reuters Sep. 22, 2023

Wearing a long tasselled silver shirt and matching trousers, he shimmered as he charged around the stage, joined by a troupe of dancers on a rotating platform.

From BBC Feb. 6, 2023

It has invaded our homes and our streets with neon, glitter, shimmering mermaid paillettes, animal prints, hulking tasselled jewelry, metallic booties, an aviary of feathers.

From The New Yorker Dec. 22, 2018

There was a visiting cardinal in the glorious tasselled hat which still adorns the notepaper of Wolsey’s College at Oxford.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Vines bending with enormous clusters of grapes festoon themselves from tree to tree, tasselling the topmost branches with fruit and tendrils.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118 by Various

We know when the first violets are blowing in the woods, and we paint for ourselves the tasselling of the alder and the red of maple-buds.

From Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life by Alice Brown

Still at a gallop we left these behind and entered a broad lane between fields of tasselling corn, where we saw a gallant sight.

From The Cavalier by George Washington Cable

Cynthia stood by the open window, where the sweet summer wind went by, laden with the fragrance of newly cut grasses and the silk of the corn that was just tasselling out.

From A Little Girl in Old Salem by Amanda Minnie Douglas

The tall, tasselling corn now flows free in rippling, murmuring, ever widening silvery seas.

From Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century by Nancy Huston Banks




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