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单词 tassel
释义 tassel
 —tasseler; esp. Brit., tasseller,  n.   —tasselly; esp. Brit., tasselly,  adj.  
 /tas"euhl/,  n.  ,  v.  , tasseled, tasseling or (esp. Brit.) tasselled, tasselling.
  n.  
  1. a pendent ornament consisting commonly of a bunch of threads, small cords, or other strands hanging from a roundish knob or head, used on clothing, in jewelry, on curtains, etc.
  2. something resembling this, as the inflorescence of certain plants, esp. that at the summit of a stalk of corn.
  v.t.  
  3. to furnish or adorn with tassels.
  4. to form into a tassel or tassels.
  5. to remove the tassel from (growing corn) in order to improve the crop.
  v.i.  
  6. (of corn) to put forth tassels (often fol. by out).
 [1250-1300; ME (n.) < OF tas(s)el fastening for cloak < VL *tassellus, b. L tessella (dim. of tessera die for gaming) and taxillus (dim. of talus die for gaming). See TESSELLATE, TALUS1]
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