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tassel

[tas-uhl] / ˈtæs əl /




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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

He took hold of the white tassel, stood up, and gently lifted off her cap.

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

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

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

Dressed in a pink and white robe with gold tassels, Ngannou made the solitary walk down the aisle to the tune of 'God's Plan' by Drake.

From BBC Mar. 8, 2024

I sucked on one of my tassels for a second and then spit it out when I realized I was doing it in front of Sohrab.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram

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

Finally I saw a dark wooden sign saying welcome to turners station in the parking lot of a fire-scorched bar with pink tasseled curtains.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

There are reports were corn in southern Illinois is only 2 to 3 feet tall and tasseling, he said.

From Reuters Jun. 28, 2012

The harsh weather arrived just as the corn was entering its crucial tasseling stage and kernels were starting to form.

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

Some corn is tasseling weeks ahead of schedule, and an early harvest is in prospect.

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 Mary Hunter Austin

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

There were also velvet suits, unbuttoned silky shirts and tasselled dresses and skirts.

From Reuters Sep. 22, 2023

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

From BBC Feb. 16, 2023

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

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

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

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

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

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




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