tuffet

The first known use of the word tuffet was in 1553.

He probably beckoned the child to the tuffet, and sat down beside her.

She sat down on the tuffet of grass beside the spot and dangled her feet over the edge.

Action was preferable to sitting like-who was it on her tuffet?

As for the tuffet, it was likely a diminutive form of the word "tuft" and came to mean "a low stool."

Hm, I said, sitting down on a split rexine tuffet.

A small tuffet stood between herself, Mrs Darrell and the kitchen door.

A tuffet is also an English unit of capacity, equal to 2 pecks, or half a bushel.

That little tuffet, with its 20- mm.

Those who are not Jay-Z have been known to spend hours waiting to be granted a tartan-covered tuffet.

Another sense of the word tuffet is "an inflatable landing area for precision accuracy parachute landings".

But What's a Tuffet?

A tuffet, pouffe or hassock is a piece of furniture used as a footstool or low seat.

Bond was a large, dusty tuffet of moss that calmly hoisted itself into the catbox one icy evening.

It is made from ordinary limestone and from whey, the stuff that Miss Muffet ate while sitting on her tuffet.

Nursery rhymes: passed on from parent to child over many generations (thus keeping old words such as "tuffet" and "chamber" popular when they are not used today).

The word tuffet comes from Anglo-French tuffete, from *tufe "tuft".

This book is not as promising, especially to a grown-up who really enjoys traditional nursery rhymes -even if today's children don't know what a tuffet is!

She is seated upon a "tuffet"; id est, she is the unregenerate soul upon Tophet, the pit of hell.

Sitting cross-legged on a tuffet, Lu Zhishen dies before Song Jiang arrives.

There was a sheet of paper in the machine, and on it had already been typed: 'Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet.'"

Her mother owns Nonesuch Tuffet Too, an artisan's gallery in Oldwick, N.J.

Little Miss Muffet (Miss Muffet; she must be led to the tuffet)

A filet mignon on a slab of pate on a tuffet of brioche soaked in sauce marchand de vin.

"So I won't see Miss Muffet and her tuffet," declared Margo, "Jack and his bean-stalk, or the rest of them.