tuffet
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of tuffet
First recorded in 1550–55
Example Sentences
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Nandina domestica ‘Firepower’ is a compact form of heavenly bamboo that forms a mounded 2-by-2-foot tuffet of slightly puckered evergreen foliage.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 31, 2022
She’d told me to pick up a piece of it and sit before her on a pillow tuffet, where I poured my crystal selections into her palms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2017
Some looked like a portable tuffet and others resembled upmarket versions of inexpensive nylon shopping bags.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 2, 2016
He carries a clear extra stone, I’d guess, under his tan jacket, and his hair, these days a coolly oiled-back tuffet, grows a little higher up the forehead than it did.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 21, 2014
Little Miss Muffet Sat on a tuffet, Eating of curds and whey; There came a great spider, And sat down beside her, And frightened Miss Muffet away.
From Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes by Clippinger, Erle Elsworth
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