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tufting

[ tuhf-ting ]

noun

  1. the act or process of making tufts.
  2. tufts collectively, especially as decoration.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of tufting1

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

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Example Sentences

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

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.

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

Round this beck there are, indeed, no ferns tufting each projecting shelf, and seizing upon every bare stone and decayed tree.

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