tufting

[ tuhf-ting ]

noun
  1. the act or process of making tufts.

  2. tufts collectively, especially as decoration.

Origin of tufting

1
First recorded in 1545–55; tuft + -ing1

Words Nearby tufting

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How to use tufting in a sentence

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

    Just Around the Corner | Fannie Hurst
  • As with silks, brocaded in different colours, therefore never use chintz where a chair or sofa calls for tufting.

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

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

    Trees Worth Knowing | Julia Ellen Rogers
  • Round this beck there are, indeed, no ferns tufting each projecting shelf, and seizing upon every bare stone and decayed tree.