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silk-tassel

/silk-tas-uhl/US // ˈsɪlkˌtæs əl //

丝绸流苏,丝织品,丝巾

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Garrya, of the western U.S., having evergreen foliage and flowers in pendulous catkins.

Examples

  • Poking out of the shiny gold pages is a “distinctive silk marker”—also gold—which “complements the color of the leather.”

  • Sometimes I wear my silk pyjamas when I am going for a walk in the mornings, does that make me eccentric?

  • Behind their silk hats loom shadows of their immigrant forbears.

  • Waving a silk cloth, he declared, “Gentlemen, I will have this land just as surely as I now have this handkerchief.”

  • Undercover detective Gustav Frank sold Mandelbaum several bolts of stolen silk that had been secretly marked.

  • Q was a Queen, who wore a silk slip; R was a Robber, and wanted a whip.

  • He urged the growing of mulberry trees and the propagation of silk worms, as being of more value than tobacco.

  • She had been properly dressed for the occasion in black tulle and black silk tights.

  • A chair covered with red silk, borne on the shoulders of sixteen chair-men, passed up to the temple.

  • Instead of a cloth, on each table was a sheet of fine glazed paper which had the appearance of oiled silk.