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tassel
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tassel
anything resembling this tuft, esp the tuft of stamens at the tip of a maize inflorescence

tassel [′tas·əl]
(botany)
The male inflorescence of corn and certain other plants.


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For the Smithsons the deck access promenade of the overall strategic plan was understood as some capacious carpet, in which their building forms a tassle at the extremity.
Dame Enid Lyons remembered how he was especially troubled by a long tassle that hung from his cap during the procession: "Joe had not even noticed when it dangled before his eyes, so desperately self-conscious was he.
Likewise, Tanabe and Johns, in bear masks and brown tunics tufted with fat tassles, tease cutely in "little bear big bear bears deep midnight.
 
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