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tassel

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Searchable Lemmata: tassel (AF), tassellus (L), tassel (ME), tasel (W), tassel (OScots), tassel (MdE).
Alternate Forms: tasseal, tasel, tassele, tassels, tasseles, tasselles, tashels, tarcellys.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1a(n.) Decoration; buckle, clasp or similar fastener for a cloak or mantle.(circa 1300 ? still in current use)
1. hec supertunica: surcote ... hec capa duplex: cape furie ... hec manticapa: jape a maunches ... hoc fastrum: feuter ... hec fibula: tasel, lace ... hoc callobium: frok a moyne ... dicitur pro veste capa Gloss. (citations from individual page of text may not appear in original order) [AND Gloss St John2 (368) circa 1250/1300]
2. Mult par iert riches li tasseals ... ; Itant i avoit de bones peres Heroic, Romance. [AND Waldef BB (22081) circa 1200/1250]
3. Gij bi his mantel he drou3 so, Þat þe tassels brosten ato Heroic, Romance. (work: ?c1300) [MED Guy(1) ((Auch) 5736) circa 1330]
4. Hur kurchefes were curiouse, with mony a proud prene [Thrn: pyne; Dc: pene]; Hur enparel was a-praysut, with princes of my3te ... The tassellus [Thrn: tasee; Dc: tasses] were of topeus, that was ther-to ti3te Arthurian, Heroic, Poetic, Romance. [MED Awntyrs Arth. ((Tay 9) p. 14) circa 1475]
AF, ME.
Sex: N/A    Use: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
1b(n.) Decoration; pendent trimming; sometimes consisting of a bunch of threads or cords gathered or knotted together at the top, often as part of a fringe; on thirteenth-century ecclesiastical copes tasselli could consist of thin gold or silver plates, often jewelled, or decorated with significant figures or symbolic designs such as the tree of Jesse or the scallop shells associated with St James. Some were in pairs, bearing for example, the martyrdoms of St Thomas and St Stephen, and Richard de Windesore and Windsor Castle (Simpson, W. S. (1887), 448).(1150 still in current use)
1. Mais urle i failli e tassels Romance. [AND Trist ((Sn1) 735) circa 1150/1200]
2. unum pulvinar coopertum panno Katalonico ... capa ... cum tassellis in quibus breudantur S. Petrus et S. Paulus Accounts. [DMLBS Invent. S. Paul. (475) 1245]
3. [1360] ... U sunt ... Lur soudlers ... De bon cordiwan, Les chauceus (ms. chauteus) de saie? ... [1375] ... L'urle e le tassel Ke tant furent bel [AND Serm1 (1360-1375) circa 1225/1250]
4. A lace lapped aboute ... And so after þe halme halched ful ofte, Wyth tryed tasselez þerto tacched innoghe On botounz of þe bry3t grene brayden ful ryche. Arthurian, Heroic, Poetic, Romance. (work: c1390?) [MED Gawain ((Nero A.10) 219-220) circa 1400]
AF, L, ME, MdE, SG, W; Primarily N/A.
Sex: N/A    Use: n/a    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
2(n.) Personal Name; as a surname.(circa 1200 ?)
1. Willelmus Tassell Accounts. [MED CRR(2) 4 (285) 1206]
ME, MdE; Primarily Accounts.
Sex: Male, Female    Use: n/a    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, OF/AF tassel. On its entry into Welsh, see Parry-Williams (1923)a, pg.80.
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