1903, Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan, Scribner's Magazine, page 345:
armet and pauldron, plastron and tasseted skirt imitated to the life by a local tinsmith.[…]
1937, James Laver, English Costume from the Fourteenth Through the Nineteenth Century, page 218:
His absurd jacket still retains something of the tasseted skirts in the form of two-inch flaps, these flaps disappeared entirely during the fifties.
1931, Thomas Hughes, My Family Memoirs, page 37:
Armistead Family […]: "On a Chev. between three points of spears, sable tasseted in the middle." CREST : "A Dexter Arm in armor embossed ppr. holding the butt end of a broken spear." MOTTO : "Raison."
