"Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the tassel actually lying upon the pillow.
Source: tatoeba (6621103)
Tassel
//ˈtæsəl//
Synonyms for "tassel" (3 found)
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4 entriesrelated to
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Translations
69 translations across 41 languages.
Afrikaans
2 entries- baard noun (male inflorescence of maize)
- tossel noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- θύσανος noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
Arabic
1 entries- شُرَّابَة noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
Armenian
1 entries- ծոպ noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- qotaz noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
Belarusian
1 entries- кутасік noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
Bulgarian
2 entries- пискюл noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
- свила noun (male inflorescence of maize)
Catalan
1 entries- borla noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
Chinese
1 entries- 流蘇 /流苏 noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
Czech
1 entries- střapec noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
Danish
1 entries- kvast noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
Dutch
2 entries- franje noun (loose hairs at the end of a braid)
- kwast noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
Esperanto
1 entries- kvasto noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
Finnish
1 entries- tupsu noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
French
1 entries- panicule noun (male inflorescence of maize)
Galician
4 entries- bolra noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
- candea noun (male inflorescence of maize)
- cenceno noun (male inflorescence of maize)
- curuto noun (male inflorescence of maize)
German
3 entries- Klunker noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
- Quaste noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
- Troddel noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
Hebrew
1 entries- צִיצִית noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
Hungarian
2 entries- bojt noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
- rojt noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
Irish
1 entries- aigilín noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
Italian
1 entries- nappa noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
Macedonian
2 entries- висулка noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
- китка noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
Malay
1 entries- jurai noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
Māori
3 entries- hukahuka noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
- kihukihu noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
- patapata noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
Norwegian
1 entries- dusk noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- پوسكول noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
Persian
1 entries- منگوله noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
Polish
2 entries- frędzel noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
- kutas noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
Portuguese
2 entries- barbas de milho noun (male inflorescence of maize)
- borla noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
Russian
1 entries- ки́сточка noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- cluigean noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
Serbo-Croatian
3 entries- kita noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
- kićanka noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
- rojta noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
Spanish
2 entries- borla noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
- fleco noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
Swedish
1 entries- tofs noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
Tagalog
1 entries- lambo noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
Thai
1 entries- พู่ห้อย noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
Turkish
3 entries- kotaz noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
- makrama noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
- püskül noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
Ukrainian
2 entries- китиця noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
- кутас noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
Vietnamese
1 entries- ngù noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
Yiddish
3 entries- טראָלד noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
- קוואַסט noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
- קוטאַש noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
Yup'ik
1 entries- kistaq noun (ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
Remember to flip your tassel after receiving your diploma.
Source: tatoeba (10640499)
The tassel on their bag broke.
Source: tatoeba (11535932)
[…] gauzes of silver mist; Loop’d up with cords of twisted wreathed light, And tassell’d round with weeping meteors!
Source: wiktionary
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