different between tufted vs tassel

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?ft?d/

Adjective

tufted (not comparable)

1. Having tufts.

   • Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of rose-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.

   • 2017 Duck Tales episode 3, 13 minutes

     They're never gonna get that Ottoman tufted in time!

Translations

Verb

tufted

1. simple past tense and past participle of tuft

English

Alternative forms

• tossel (archaic)

Etymology

From Old French tassel, from Latin taxillus (“small cube”), from t?lus (“ankle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tæs?l/
• Rhymes: -æs?l

Noun

tassel (plural tassels)

1. 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. (botany) The panicle on a male plant of maize, which consists of loose threads with anthers on them.
3. The loose hairs at the end of a braid.
4. A narrow silk ribbon, or similar, sewed to a book to be put between the pages.
5. (architecture) A piece of board that is laid upon a wall as a sort of plate, to give a level surface to the ends of floor timbers.
6. A kind of bur used in dressing cloth; a teasel.
7. A thin plate of gold on the back of a bishop's gloves.

Related terms

• sword knot

Translations

Verb

tassel (third-person singular simple present tassels, present participle tasselling or tasseling, simple past and past participle tasselled or tasseled)

1. (transitive) To adorn with tassels.
   • 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act V, Scene V, verses 37-39

     […] gauzes of silver mist;

     Loop’d up with cords of twisted wreathed light,

     And tassell’d round with weeping meteors!

2. (intransitive, botany) To put forth a tassel or flower.

Further reading

• tassel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Slates, astels, leasts, salets, slates, stales, steals, stelas, teslas

Old French

Etymology

From Late Latin taxellus, secondary form of taxillus, diminutive of Latin talus.

Noun

tassel m (oblique plural tasseaus or tasseax or tassiaus or tassiax or tassels, nominative singular tasseaus or tasseax or tassiaus or tassiax or tassels, nominative plural tassel)

1. tassel (adornment for a garment)