tassel

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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

Most still possess upward of 90 fingerlike tentacles, which stick out of the creature’s bell-shaped body like the strings at the end of a tassel rug.

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2023

“There is one final tradition and that is to move the tassel – not yet, not yet, not yet – from the right to the left,” Nelsen instructed to laughter from the audience and graduates.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 28, 2023

It made me think of the caps that Santa’s elves wear, the same shape and color, the same fuzzy white tassel at the tip.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien