Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Anything rounded and soft. Especially— In dressmaking, material gathered up so as to produce a sort of knot or bunch for decorative effect.
Wiktionary
- n. Alternative form of pouf.
WordNet 3.0
- n. thick cushion used as a seat
Examples
“If so, then this 'Miss Rio' ottoman (or 'pouffe' to some of us) will look weirdly familiar.”
“The seat can also be removed from the underframe for use as a pouffe.”
“The LaRousse dictionary says a puf is a puffe or pouffe.”
“The Cube is for people who PVR then series-link Hole In The Wall, then need to Stain Devil urine out of their pouffe because Joe Swash was knocked into a paddling pool wearing a Bacofoil catsuit while imitating the Pharaoh Rameses.”
“The former Labour Home Secretary claimed for a £199 pouffe, a £370 armchair and an £899 sofa.”
“Anyway, Oscar gets a little pair of round squidgy things, something between a hoof and a pouffe.”
“The Point collection also includes an island version, with a wider base that offers more space for objects, together with or instead of a bedside table, and a triangular pouffe.”
“So my dad was reduced to watching television sitting on the pouffe, with the cat in his chair.”
“She was sitting on a gunmetal-gray velvet pouffe, feeling uncomfortable.”
“I was thinking about the time Kirst and I, in a History lesson, were talking about when we were little and all the pictures in our colouring books were coloured in using either a brown or green crayon because they were the only ones we could ever find in the pouffe.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pouffe’.
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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Mak...
I'm wading through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels one by one, and someday, I'll wade through them again and list all the words I learned while reading them.
Edit: I started ma...studdingsail, carronade, mumchance, grumlin-futtocks, crosscat-harpings, holystone, sennit, orlop, orchitis, negus, kevel, altumal and 1112 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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...a list from a notebook...
I found several pages of words in an old notebook. By the looks of it, they were words I learnt some time ago (and subsequently wrote down) from books by Patrick O'Brian and China Mieville, two aut...
trabacaloes, jocosity, ordnance, transom, douceur, purser, nostrum, gaby, sea-lawyer, bowsprit, officious, hobnailed and 124 more...
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furniture
commode, settee, swivel chair, sideboard, shabby chic, lounge, filing cabinet, display cabinet, chest of drawers, dresser, bureau, wardrobe and 6 more...
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Household Items&Knickknacks
andiron, bauble, bolster, tureen, salver, ladle, pallet, escritoire, gewgaw, davenport, boat, paraphernalia and 17 more...
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Rest afoot
Equipment for maintaining one's lower extremities in an elevated posture whilst seated.
hassock, ottoman, pouffe, footstool, tuffet, footrest, stirrup, ottoman
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katherina's Words
salubrious, crepuscular, nascent, nihility, pouffe, skulduggery, fracas, kerfuffle
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