Plural of tassel

Forms of tassel

Tassels in a sentence

• The Giant's boots were of pink leather and had tassels on them and his hat was decorated with an enormous pink ostrich feather, carefully curled.1912, L. Frank Baum, The Patchwork Girl of Oz
• The tall, plumy tassels at the tops of corn stalks, swing much as you do under the maple tree.1915, Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson, The How and Why Library, Life - Plants - Section IX
• The colorful tassels of the visible ends of the hierarchs' epitrachelions suggest a late-fourteenth century date.2014, Linda Safran, “Notes”, in The Medieval Salento: Art and Identity in Southern Italy (Middle Ages Series), Philadelphia, Pa.…. From the entry epitrachelion
• His fustian shirt, sanguineflowered, trembles its Spanish tassels at his secrets.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 3: Proteus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 43. From the entry fustian
• Every needle of the drooping pine tassels is weighted with an ice drop.1907 February, Mary C. Dickerson, “The Pageant of Nature”, in Country Life, volume 11, page 554. From the entry ice drop

Meaning of tassel

1. 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).
2. noun The panicle on a male plant of maize, which consists of loose threads with anthers on them.
3. noun The loose hairs at the end of a braid.

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Questions about the plural of tassel

What is the plural of tassel?

The plural of tassel is tassels.

Is tassel countable?

Tassel is a countable noun.