tasselled, -eled, ppl. a.
(ˈtæs(ə)ld)
[f. tassel n.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.
| a. 1611 Cotgr., Houpé..tufted, or tasselled. c 1633 Milton Arcades 57 Ere the..tasselld horn Shakes the high thicket, haste I all about. 1784 Cowper Task ii. 749 The tasseled cap and the spruce band. 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. 1841–4 Emerson Ess. Ser. i. xi. (1876) 263 You shall still see..the tasselled grass, or the corn-flags. |
| b. 1882 Garden 29 Apr. 301/3 A very elegant Hare's-foot Fern, having the long graceful fronds tasselled at the tips. |