TASSEL (tasselled, tasselling)

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Irregular inflected forms: tasselled    , tasselling   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does tassel mean? 

• TASSEL (noun)
  The noun TASSEL has 1 sense:

1. adornment consisting of a bunch of cords fastened at one end

  Familiarity information: TASSEL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TASSEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Adornment consisting of a bunch of cords fastened at one end

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("tassel" is a kind of...):

adornment (a decoration of color or interest that is added to relieve plainness)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tassel"):

sword knot (an ornamental tassel on the hilt of a sword)

 Context examples 

From thence we went to Bourges, where I had a tunic of flame-colored silk and a very fine pair of shoes with tassels of silk and drops of silver.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"That I'm not!" acquiesced Laurie, with an expression of humility quite new to him, as he dropped his eyes and absently wound Jo's apron tassel round his finger.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“Where does that bell communicate with?” he asked at last pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the tassel actually lying upon the pillow.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was too rheumatic to be shaken hands with, but he begged me to shake the tassel on the top of his nightcap, which I did most cordially.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

His tufts of ears had become tassels, his neck and shoulders were slashed in a score of places, and his very lips were cut and bleeding—all from these lightning snaps that were beyond his foreseeing and guarding.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

"Ah, that depends on who wears the apron!" and Laurie gave an audacious tweak at the tassel.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He carried a jaunty sort of a stick, with a large pair of rusty tassels to it; and a quizzing-glass hung outside his coat,—for ornament, I afterwards found, as he very seldom looked through it, and couldn't see anything when he did.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

While Amy dressed, she issued her orders, and Jo obeyed them, not without entering her protest, however, for she sighed as she rustled into her new organdie, frowned darkly at herself as she tied her bonnet strings in an irreproachable bow, wrestled viciously with pins as she put on her collar, wrinkled up her features generally as she shook out the handkerchief, whose embroidery was as irritating to her nose as the present mission was to her feelings, and when she had squeezed her hands into tight gloves with three buttons and a tassel, as the last touch of elegance, she turned to Amy with an imbecile expression of countenance, saying meekly...

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I look from Mr. Chillip, in his Sunday neckcloth, to the pulpit; and think what a good place it would be to play in, and what a castle it would make, with another boy coming up the stairs to attack it, and having the velvet cushion with the tassels thrown down on his head.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)