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  • adjective Having tassels.

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  • adjective fringed or adorned with tassels

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Examples

  • A gaunt, tasselled pine rocks against the pale sky

    Joy of Wind David Ackley 2011

  • Alan looked at the leader's face under the broad tasselled sombrero; he carried a trumpet at port arms, his black sequined costume was thin and cheap, his eyes hooded, his expression still and inured.

    la Cucaracha David Ackley 2011

  • A tasselled lampshade and satin throws on the bed lend the room its boudoiry feel.

    Anatomy of style: Vintage Hannah Booth 2010

  • All flowing curves and hand-painted flowers, with crisp bedlinen and tasselled woollen blankets, this bijou abode sleeps two people.

    The 10 best quirky campsites 2011

  • Davenport, described on the Watts website as a "somewhat shadowy figure", had a penchant for playing the violin while wearing a long tasselled hat.

    Update on Some Liturgical Details for the Installation of Archbishop Vincent Nichols 2009

  • Sotheby's two-day auction of sporting memorabilia concludes today with 335 lots on offer, ranging from such amiably humdrum jumble-sale tat as Mark Ilott's 1995 England touring cap (guide price £135) and a pair of Will Greenwood's white rugby shorts (£125), to "the oldest known international rugby cap ever to be offered at auction" (Foster-Cunliffe's tasselled 1874 England titfer, £3,750) and golf legend Walter Hagen's 1927 US PGA diamond-studded winner's gold medal (£50,000).

    Des Connor's 1971 Lions-bait remains absolutely priceless | Frank Keating 2011

  • Misfortune clung to the divorced father-of-five like chewing gum to a tasselled moccasin.

    World Of Lather 2011

  • The men wore their wolf - and beaver-skin caps, with the gay-tasselled ear-flaps flying free, while on their feet were the moose-skin moccasins and walrus-hide muclucs of the north.

    CHAPTER 11 2010

  • You ride camels, it seems, in nipple-tasselled leotards, and you cheat on your husband with the carpenter who left you in season four.

    Is it time to put Sex and the City out of its misery? Jo Elvin 2010

  • I knew all that before we went, of course, but Mollie came back in new brown brogues with tasselled laces and was happy for the afternoon.

    Movie Night 2010

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