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shaggytuft

shaggytuft noun: a rug made of cotton shag.

shaggytuft: a rug made of cotton shag
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Noun

shaggytuft

  1. (obsolete) A rug made of cotton shag.
    • Shaggytuft, a high pile shaggy surfaced cotton rug with a lustrous sheen which is laundered and pre-shrunk. Shaggytuft is shown in 20 decorative colors, including chartreuse, gray, dusty rose, cantaloupe, golden glow[…]1938, Rug Profits, volume 28
    • SHAGGYTUFT. . . newest and smartest of the increasingly popular shaggy-texture fabrics . . . rich, thick and luxuriously soft . . . and REVERSIBLE!1942, Interiors, volume 101, number 8, page 68
  2. Any of the genus Stenandrium of flowering plants.
    • A dwarf, tufted, grayish plant with short spikes of pink-rose bilateral flowers nestled among the leaves.1979, Richard Spellenberg, “Shaggy Tuft (Stenandrium barbatum)”, in The Audubon Society field guide to North American wildflowers, western region, page 316

Synonyms of shaggytuft

Forms of shaggytuft

alternative formshaggy tuft

Origin of shaggytuft

From shaggy + tuft.

Phrases with shaggytuft

Questions about shaggytuft

What does shaggytuft mean?
Shaggytuft means a rug made of cotton shag.
What part of speech is shaggytuft?
Shaggytuft is a noun.

Words near shaggytuft in the dictionary

  1. shaggy-dog story
  2. shaggy-dog tale
  3. shaggy-dog tales
  4. shaggymane
  5. shaggymanes
  6. shaggytuft
  7. Shagia
  8. shagless
  9. shaglet
  10. shaglets
  11. shaglike

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