tuft

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With us Austrians, for example, birth counts for almost everything,--for infinitely more than money I think," said John, as one impersonally generalizing, "that a fortune-hunter with a tuft is the least admirable variety of that animal.

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  1. noun A short cluster of elongated strands, as of yarn, hair, or grass, attached at the base or growing close together.
  2. noun A dense clump, especially of trees or bushes.
  3. transitive verb To furnish or ornament with tufts or a tuft.

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clump ·  wisp ·  fringe ·  mustache ·  patch ·  stalk ·  plume ·  wreath ·  foliage ·  strand ·  bunch ·  mound

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tuft:   tufts

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  1. Middle English, probably alteration of Old French tofe, from Late Latin tufa, helmet crest, or of Germanic origin.

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  1. from Middle English toft, a piece of ground, from Anglo-Saxon toft, from Icelandic topt, tupt, toft, tuft, tomt, a piece of ground: see toft.
  2. from tuft, n.
  3. Also tuff; from Middle English tuft, toft, a later form (with unorig -t, prob. due in part to confusion with tuft) of tuff: see tuff.
 

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