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

“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

Penny placed the mortarboard with a blue and yellow tassel on top of her daughter’s ink-black hair.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2022

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

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