The video ends with the teen proudly displaying her diploma, before joining her fellow graduates by symbolically moving her cap tassel from the right to left side and cheering with excitement.—Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 2 June 2024 Eckstrom often employs a hint of the heady color in small ways, such as decorative trim (a red tassel on a cabinet key, for example).—Kathryn O'Shea Evans, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2024
Verb
The Colombian singer wore flowers for earmuffs, and spread her arms to reveal rainbow day-glo tassels streaming from her elbows.—Suzy Exposito, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023 Corn was just starting to tassel across much of the Midwest, including fields in southern Indiana, a golden crown signaling the end of the season.—Journal Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2022 See all Example Sentences for tassel
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Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English, clasp, tassel, from Anglo-French, from Vulgar Latin *tassellus, alteration of Latin taxillus small die; akin to Latin talus anklebone, die
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