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- noun Obsolete form of
tassel . - noun Obsolete form of
tercel .
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Examples
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The most wonderful thing of all, we thought, and certainly the most novel to us, was a kind of animated purple thread, which spun itself out to such an extent that there was only a long cobweb left perceptible; this, floating about, after a time showed extraordinary muscular strength and energy, gathering itself together into a compact purple tassell or worm.
Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta W. Cope Devereux
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Shee had no more left on her but a tassell and a threed:
Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series Frank Sidgwick
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His epithets are in themselves a study: "the _dewy-tassell'd_ wood,"
The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson Alfred Tennyson Tennyson 1850
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Turns out, the letter praised Sarah for her position on the Dean's List and informed her she would get to wear a gold tassell at graduation.
Socialite Life Lola Robertson 2010
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Turns out, the letter praised Sarah for her position on the Dean's List and informed her she would get to wear a gold tassell at graduation.
Socialite Life Lola Robertson 2010
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