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A bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base. / A cluster of threads drawn tightly through upholstery, a mattress or a quilt, etc., to secure and strengthen the padding.

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tuft

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tuft

IPA(Pronunciation)

/tʌft/

Noun

historical

A bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base. / A cluster of threads drawn tightly through upholstery, a mattress or a quilt, etc., to secure and strengthen the padding.

Japanese Meaning

（羽毛、毛、草などが）根元で束ねられた房 / 家具や寝具などの内部を補強するために、しっかりと束ねられた、糸や繊維の房状の部分

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A small sparrow perched on a tuft of grass near the creek.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

小さなスズメが小川のそばの草の塊にとまっていた。

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Sense（1）

A bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base.

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A small clump of trees or bushes.

Sense（4）

(historical) A gold tassel on the cap worn by titled undergraduates at English universities.

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(historical) A person entitled to wear such a tassel.

A college tutor, or a nobleman’s toady, who appears one fine day as my right reverend lord, in a silk apron and a shovel-hat, and assumes benedictory airs over me, is still the same man we remember at Oxbridge, when he was truckling to the tufts, and bullying the poor undergraduates in the lecture-room.

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