Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete or dialectal form of tassel.
  • noun In architecture, same as torsel.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun See tassel.

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  • noun Alternative form of tassel.

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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 '."

    The Primrose Ring Ruth Sawyer 1925

  • He used to stan 'in the front winder' n 'twirl the curtin tossel for hours to a time.

    Timothy's Quest A Story for Anybody, Young or Old, Who Cares to Read It Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

  • 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.

    Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands Marietta Holley 1881

  • 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."

    A Little Country Girl Susan Coolidge 1870

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