tasseled

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
tassel1

▶noun

• 1 a tuft of hanging threads, knotted together at one end and used for decoration in soft furnishing and clothing.

• 2 the tufted head of some plants, especially a flower head with prominent stamens at the top of a maize stalk.

▶verb (tassels, tasselling, tasselled; US tassels, tasseling, tasseled)

• 1 provide with a tassel or tassels.

• 2 N. Amer. (of maize or other plants) form tassels.

– derivatives
tasselled adjective.

– origin ME: from OFr. tassel ‘clasp’, of unknown origin.

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tassel2

▶noun a small piece of stone or wood supporting the end of a beam or joist.

– origin C17: from obs. Fr., from L. taxillus ‘small die’.