v. [f. BE- 1 + TASSEL v.] trans. To hang round or decorate with, or as with, tassels. Hence Betasselled, -eled ppl. a.
1648. Earl Westmoreland, Otia Sacra (1879), 16. The Lustfull Clusters … Betasseling Autumn.
1778. Mrs. Delany, Lett., Ser. II. II. 341. Her bridal apparel … festooned and betassel’d.
1812. Examiner, 12 Oct., 653/1. One cannot be always … devising patterns, and betasselling dragoons.
