Usually means: Decorative hanging threads on clothing.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word tassels:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. tassels: Merriam-Webster
  2. tassels: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tassels: Collins English Dictionary
  4. tassels: Vocabulary.com
  5. Tassel's, Tassels, tassels: Wordnik
  6. tassels: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. tassels: Wiktionary
  8. tassels: Dictionary.com
  9. tassels: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Tassels: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. tassels: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tassels: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tassels: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (tassel)

noun:  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).
noun:  (botany) The panicle on a male plant of maize, which consists of loose threads with anthers on them.
noun:  The loose hairs at the end of a braid.
noun:  A narrow silk ribbon, or similar, sewn to a book to be put between the pages.
noun:  (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.
noun:  A kind of bur used in dressing cloth; a teasel.
noun:  A thin plate of gold on the back of a bishop's gloves.
verb:  (transitive) To adorn with tassels.
verb:  (intransitive, botany) To put forth a tassel or flower.
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