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Tassels like the ones on the horse's bridal showed up everywhere, like on the brightly colored straw belts reminiscent of the horses decorative harness.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 23, 2012

Tassels, embroideries and brocades drew on ornate costumes worn by empresses, with references to 1930s and `40s Hollywood, where traditional Chinese dress was reinterpreted in movies like Marlene Dietrich's "Shanghai Express."

From Seattle Times • Feb. 10, 2012

Tassels of toilet paper festooned every bar, and some thirty wads of toilet paper had been stuck to the walls with toothpaste.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

He could polish the piano and then sit down to it and play "Those Tassels on Her Boots" or "Marching through Georgia" with great skill.

From Mother Carey's Chickens by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith

The most important of these was the mansion of the Van Tassels, the Roost of the unfortunate Wolfert.

From Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies by Irving, Washington