Downstairs, the inviting bar and lobby area was divided up with rattan screens, and the seating areas filled with bobbin tables and chairs whose lengthy tassels ticked the floor.—Vogue, 8 July 2024 Cowboys and frontiersmen adopted the embellishment from American Indian tribes, which cut tassels into suede buckskins or deer hides to keep warm and to camouflage them in the wild.—Ari Stark, WWD, 3 July 2024
Verb
The Colombian singer wore flowers for earmuffs, and spread her arms to reveal rainbow day-glo tassels streaming from her elbows.—Suzy Exposito, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023 Corn was just starting to tassel across much of the Midwest, including fields in southern Indiana, a golden crown signaling the end of the season.—Journal Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2022 See all Example Sentences for tassel
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Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English, clasp, tassel, from Anglo-French, from Vulgar Latin *tassellus, alteration of Latin taxillus small die; akin to Latin talus anklebone, die
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