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tassel

[tas-uhl] / ˈtæs əl /




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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 few tables away, Alexandra Derderian, a video editor wearing the same rainbow tassel earrings as her plush giraffe puppet, was chatting with Michael Esparza and his bright orange Muppet-like counterpart, Melvin.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 21, 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

It looked more like a carpet tassel than a shoelace.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer

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

Henkel and Pitegoff’s only additions are a borrowed piano, a red carpet in the lobby and a few glittering tassels by the bar.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 27, 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

“Come along, Sir James. To our bath. Bring your most elegant pajamas. The ones embroidered in gold with silver tassels will do.”

From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg

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

January 2023 comes in shiny tasseled loafers and constituent messaging.

From Slate Jan. 4, 2023

A military leader or ruler, he wears a tasseled hat, rides a caparisoned mount, and is accompanied by dozens of smaller figures, a sculptural demographic of Kajola’s citizenry.

From New York Times Oct. 16, 2022

She was holding a fancy tasseled bookmark between her fingers as if it were a small flag.

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein

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

I am to be married in the time of tasseling corn.

From The Arrow-Maker A Drama in Three Acts by Austin, Mary Hunter

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

The result, its creators say, is a queer celebration - a bold, colourful, and tasselled homage to lycra.

From BBC Feb. 16, 2023

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 Cable, George Washington

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 Brown, Alice

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

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

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 Munger, Dell H.




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