What is "tasselled"

Usage examples of "tasselled".

Henry, sweating in his uniform, smiled beneath the tasselled point of his bicorne hat.

Sharpe suspected that the erstwhile Wagon Master General would be lucky to be a prisoner because if loup was fighting true to his reputation then it was more likely that Runciman was lying slaughtered in his bed with his flannel nightdress and tasselled woollen cap soaked in blood.

There was a flat with the reddest of new carpets, tasselled portieres and six steins with pewter lids arranged on a ledge above the wainscoting of the dining-room.

The sailors, in tasselled caps of red worsted, were getting the heavy tackles in readiness for the whales.

Master Rayne pulled off his tasselled cap, exposing his sunny curls to the breeze.

Just behind the door to the corridor was a plyboard kitchen cabinet, its pull-down work- top closed, and nestled between this and the gas stove stood a tall lamp stand with a tasselled shade, an arrangement imposed by jumble rather than design.

Cecilia went close to him, and refrained with difficulty from taking up the tasselled cord.

So saying, he undid the tasselled cord tied round the middle of his gown.

And with one look at the bed, covered by a piece of cheap red-andyellow tasselled tapestry, he went out into the street.

The impress of a form was, indeed, clearly visible on the red and yellow tasselled tapestry of the bed.

Just behind the door to the corridor was a plyboard kitchen cabinet, its pull-down work- top closed, and nestled between this and the gas stove stood a tall lamp stand with a tasselled shade, an arrangement imposed by jumble rather than design.

It was made up of distinct elements, the green-clad regular army formations with their wide-brimmed tropical helmets, the black shirt r Fascist militia with their high boots and cross-straps, their deaths head and thunderbolt badges and their glittering daggers, the regular colonial units of black Somalis and Eritreans in their tall tasselled red fezes and baggy shirts, their gaily coloured regimental sashes and put teed legs above bare feet.

The sailors, in tasselled caps of red worsted, were getting the heavy tackles in readiness for the whales.

The whole house was decorated to the same theme, with deep pile carpets, long floral curtains with tasselled tiebacks and swags draped above.

He appeared to become absorbed by the tasselled loopings of his groin, weighing each bobble in turn with his clean fingers.