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Definition of Tuffets
1. tuffet [n] - See also: tuffet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tuffets
Literary usage of Tuffets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Rock-garden by Reginald John Farrer (1919)
"ASTER. chains in the highest fine turf of the mountains, and often in company
with similar tuffets and wide clumps of the Flannel-flower, ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1835)
"... and big boy Beo ; But the red red cow «he happen'd to stray, And took hie two
lege for two tuffets of hay ; So into hie waistband she hitch'd her horn, ..."
3. The Caroline Islands: Travel in the Sea of the Little Lands by Frederick William Christian (1899)
"... which flourish in the scanty soil, the resort of the sea birds Parrat and
Kake, the latter of which deposits its eggs here in the tuffets of ..."
4. Shooting and Fishing in the Rivers, Prairies, and Backwoods of North America by Bénédict Henry Révoil, Chronicler (1865)
"The nest is made of sticks, a little more than a yard long, tuffets of grass,
and pieces of moss and lichens. Its circumference is from five to six feet. ..."
5. A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts by William Nicholson (1807)
"Upon examination by the microscope, this appearance is found to be occasioned by
innumerable tuffets of a parasitic plant growing out of.the ..."
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