ppl. a. [f. TASSEL sb.1 or v. + -ED.] a. Furnished or adorned with or as with a tassel or tassels; of a person, wearing a tassel or tassels. b. Formed into, or resembling in some way, a tassel or tassels; of a fern, having divisions like tassels at the apex of each frond.

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  a.  1611.  Cotgr., Houpé … tufted, or tasselled.

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c. 1633.  Milton, Arcades, 57. Ere the … tasselld horn Shakes the high thicket, haste I all about.

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1784.  Cowper, Task, II. 749. The tasseled cap and the spruce band.

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1808.  Skurray, Bidcombe Hill, 49. Not long ago, on Cherwell’s banks we rov’d, Link’d arm in arm, like other tassell’d youths.

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1841–4.  Emerson, Ess., Ser. I. xi. (1876), 263. You shall still see … the tasselled grass, or the corn-flags.

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  b.  1882.  Garden, 29 April, 301/3. A very elegant Hare’s-foot Fern, having the long graceful fronds tasselled at the tips.

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