pouffe
/puːf
/(also pouf)
noun
A cushioned footstool or low seat with no back.One wonders what bad experiences the sensitive prince has had with unsympathetic sofas or aggressive pouffes....
- An aperture in the back wall is incised in the form of an unmoulded stilted arch; there is one low table round which diners slump on leather pouffes; the other tables are covered in cloths of thick striped material.
- Startled, they all plopped themselves into chairs or pouffes.
Origin
Late 19th century: from French pouf (see pouf2).
Rhymes
- walk test
- walk the boards
- walk the plank
- walk the streets
- walk the walk (also walk the talk)
- walk the wards
- walk-through
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- orthopraxy
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- orthopsychiatrist
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- orthopter
- Orthoptera
- orthopteran
- orthopterist
- orthopteroid
- orthopterological
- orthopterology
- orthopteron