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tuffet

American  
[tuhf-it] / ˈtʌf ɪt /

noun

  1. a low stool; footstool.

  2. Dialect. tuft.


tuffet British  
/ ˈtʌfɪt /

noun

  1. a small mound or low seat

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of tuffet

First recorded in 1550–55


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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

Miss Muffet fairly jumped off her tuffet, for she had never had a party in her life.

From Miss Muffet's Christmas Party by Samuel McChord Crothers

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