tuffet

American  

[tuhf-it] / ˈtʌf ɪt /

noun

1. a low stool; footstool.

2. Dialect. tuft.

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tuffet British  

/ ˈtʌfɪt /

noun

1. a small mound or low seat

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Etymology

Origin of tuffet

First recorded in 1550–55

Example Sentences

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

So little Miss Muffet, sat on a tuffet, eating her curds and whey, just as she ought to have done.

From Uncle Wiggily and Old Mother Hubbard Adventures of the Rabbit Gentleman with the Mother Goose Characters by Garis, Howard Roger