tufting

[ tuhf-ting ]

noun

1. the act or process of making tufts.
2. tufts collectively, especially as decoration.

Word History and Origins

Origin of tufting¹

First recorded in 1545–55; tuft + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

There ain't a trust concern in the business can show finer springs or better tufting.

From Project Gutenberg

As with silks, brocaded in different colours, therefore never use chintz where a chair or sofa calls for tufting.

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Gradually the herbage disappears, and the shrubs are only found tufting the ridgy tops of low undulating sandhills.

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The beauty of its graceful crown is sometimes marred by a fungus which produces a thick tufting of twigs on the ends of branches.

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Round this beck there are, indeed, no ferns tufting each projecting shelf, and seizing upon every bare stone and decayed tree.

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