deedlee ball

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deedlee ball (plural deedlee balls)

  1. A small decorative ball made of yarn.
    • 1969 March 31, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five  (A Seymour Lawrence Book), New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →OCLC, page 35:
      The woman and the pony were posed before velvet draperies which were fringed with deedlee-balls. They were flanked by Doric columns.
    • 1996, Jonathan Nasaw, The World on Blood, New York, N.Y.: Dutton Books, →ISBN, page 139:
      […] it was only Leon, looking even droopier than usual in a floppy red felt Santa cap with a dangling white deedly-ball.
    • 1999, Kevin Canty, Nine Below Zero: A Novel, New York, N.Y. : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, →ISBN, page 75:
      He felt the touch on his shoulder, turned and it was Gil Sibbernsen, the deputy, dressed for hunting: orange shirt, green wool coat and pants, pac-boots. He was tall as Marvin but big. On his head he wore a red wool collection of flaps and plaid, topped off with a deedlee ball.
    • 2000, Joel Perry, Funny That Way: Adventures in Fabulousness, Los Angeles, C.A., New York, N.Y.: Alyson Books, →ISBN, page 164:
      Martha Stewart has turned us all into home and hearth experts. Or has she? Phenomenally successful as she is, there are still those among us who think flower-patterned drapes with deedly-ball fringe are chic. I actually knew one man so nondomestic he thought deedly-balls were what his first lover had.
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