Usually means: Ornamental hanging threads on clothing.
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  1. tassel: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tassel: Merriam-Webster
  3. tassel, tassel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tassel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tassel: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tassel: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tassel, tassel: Wordnik
  8. tassel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. tassel: Wiktionary
  10. tassel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tassel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tassel: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tassel: Dictionary.com
  14. tassel: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. tassel: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Tassel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Tassel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. tassel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. tassel: Rhymezone
  20. Tassel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. tassel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. tassel: FreeDictionary.org
  23. tassel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. tassel: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. tassel: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. TASSEL: Acronym Finder

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  1. tassel: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Tassel: Urban Dictionary

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(Note: See tasseled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads from which at one end protrudes a cord on which the ball is hung, and which may have loose, dangling threads at the other end (often used as decoration along the bottom of garments, curtains or other hangings).
noun:  (botany) The panicle on a male plant of maize, which consists of loose threads with anthers on them.
noun:  The loose hairs at the end of a braid.
noun:  A narrow silk ribbon, or similar, sewn to a book to be put between the pages.
noun:  (architecture) A piece of board that is laid upon a wall as a sort of plate, to give a level surface to the ends of floor timbers.
noun:  A kind of bur used in dressing cloth; a teasel.
noun:  A thin plate of gold on the back of a bishop's gloves.
verb:  (transitive) To adorn with tassels.
verb:  (intransitive, botany) To put forth a tassel or flower.

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