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tuft

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tuft
1. a small clump of trees or bushes
2. (formerly) a gold tassel on the cap worn by titled undergraduates at English universities
tuft [təft]
(geology)
mound


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However, as he thought his court-suit necessary to the occasion, it was not for me tell him that he looked far better in his working dress; the rather, because I knew he made himself so dreadfully uncomfortable, entirely on my account, and that it was for me he pulled up his shirt-collar so very high behind, that it made the hair on the crown of his head stand up like a tuft of feathers.
Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles View in context
A whiff of warm breath, a little soft tuft on its paw--: and immediately wert thou ready to love and lure it.
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
A tuft of green leaves waved upon his crest, a larger tuft of brakes made an umbrageous tail, and a shawl of many colours formed his flapping wings.
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