tassel
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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
“When you move that tassel, you are moving education and the love of education into your heart forever.”
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 28, 2023
I was so scared I was shaking like a corn tassel in a high wind.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
They are easily identified as Jewish settlers by the white tassels dangling from their hips, a religious garment worn by Orthodox men.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
A penny loafer with subtle studs and detachable tassels?
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2025
A woman dances in the spotlight, the glittering tassels on her dress shivering and swaying in tandem with her moves.
From BBC ● Dec. 26, 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
It was improper to wear the tassels hanging out when in the presence of the dead.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
Clover’s long, tasseled ears collect leaves, grass, and assorted debris on walks, and she scratches them out semiregularly.
From Slate ● Jun. 20, 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
With their tasseled ears, pointed mutton chops and jacked-up hind quarters, they look like creatures from a Dr. Seuss book.
From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2023
Tobias Rahim, a 6-foot-7 Kurdish Danish pop singer, strode around the vast stage of Copenhagen’s Royal Arena one recent Saturday night dressed in a tasseled gold cowboy outfit.
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2023
His hair is carefully combed back, and he looks taller than usual in a flawless, tasseled captain’s uniform.
From "Legend" by Marie Lu
There are reports were corn in southern Illinois is only 2 to 3 feet tall and tasseling, he said.
From Reuters ● Jun. 28, 2012
Some corn is tasseling weeks ahead of schedule, and an early harvest is in prospect.
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
The harsh weather arrived just as the corn was entering its crucial tasseling stage and kernels were starting to form.
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
Their team – all dressed in tasselled cowboy outfits – have nabbed the prize for best-dressed, tying with another team decked out in pink nighties and platinum blonde wigs.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2026
Frocks were pleated, tasselled, sequined, off-the-shoulder or strapless.
From Reuters ● Sep. 8, 2021
A photograph from that time shows him proudly wearing his uniform, with its heavily tasselled pelisse, mostly unchanged since the Napoleonic Wars, and later favored by Jimi Hendrix.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 22, 2019
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
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
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
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
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
The hot sun blazed fiercely down on his thinly clad back, and he noticed as he struggled through the tasselling corn that the leaves were already firing about the roots.
From The Wind Before the Dawn by Dell H. Munger
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