tassels
- plural of tassel.
Example Sentences
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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
Tassels of imported cotton at the extremities of the drawstrings, and perhaps pendants of small seeds, or beads, usually white, together with cotton fringes in proper colors, enhance the beauty of the knapsack.
From The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir by Garvan, John M.
The Vanishing of Betty Varian restored to readers of Carolyn Wells a detective whose appearance in The Room with the Tassels made that story more than ordinarily worth while.
From When Winter Comes to Main Street by Overton, Grant Martin
