Examples
“After that they met the faery ferryman, who -- according to Sandy -- "wore a wee kiltie o 'reeds, an' a tammie made frae a loch-lily pad wi 'a cat-o'-nine-tail tossel, lukin' sae ilk the brae ye wad niver ken he was a mon glen ye dinna see his legs, walkin '.”
“He used to stan 'in the front winder' n 'twirl the curtin tossel for hours to a time.”
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“Well, if you'll believe me there wuzn't a thing there that I expected to see, not a ornament or curtain or tossel, and nothin 'but jest common ground to walk on like our suller bottom or dooryard.”
“After that they stopped at a carpet and curtain place, where Cannie was much diverted at hearing the proprietor recommend tassels instead of plated rings on certain Holland shades, for the reason that "a tossel had more poetry about it somehow.”
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CCel
chattel, channel, kennel, duffel, tunnel, ginnel, fennel, stannel, flannel, scrannel, trunnel, waggel and 24 more...
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Australian
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scrabbleabdul, abdulled, abdulling, abi, abiu, ablactate, absinthial, absinthian, absoluter, acalypha, acanthodian, acaroids and 5128 more...
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vanishedone The Online Etymology Dictionary notes regarding tassel that the O.E.D. 'calls attention to the variant form tossel and suggests association with toss (v.)'. Jan 21, 2009