Tasselled
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Having tassels.
"Even the mantelpiece is adorned with a totally unfunctional tasselled valance rather like an altar frontal."
- 1 fringed or adorned with tassels wordnet
Synonyms
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More examples"Drawn by some strange force, from the unfathomable depths below, eerie shapes sought the surface, blinking glassily at the unfamiliar glare they had exchanged for their native gloom—uncouth creatures bedight with tasselled fringes like weed-growths waving around them, fathom-long, medusae with coloured spots like eyes clustering all over their transparent substance, wriggling worm-like forms of such elusive matter that the smallest exposure to the sun melted them, and they were not."
Etymology
From tassel + -ed.
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