tufted, a.
(ˈtʌftɪd)
[f. tuft n. and v. + -ed.]
1. Having or adorned with a tuft or tufts. a. Adorned with tufts or clumps of trees or bushes.
| 1606 Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. ii. Magnif. 1106 The tufted tops of sacred Libanon. 1779 Mirror No. 43 ¶3 A stream..circled round a tufted plain, and formed a little lake in front of a village. 1810 Scott Lady of L. i. xiii, Tall rocks and tufted knolls. 1883 R. Bridges Prometheus 148 The cones And needles of the fir..are strewn upon the tufted floor. |
b. Adorned with tufts of some fabric, as a garment, or with a natural tuft, as the tail or other part of an animal; having or formed with tufts: spec. of a carpet, carpeting, etc. (see quot. 1960). Also ellipt. as n.
| 1651 in Verney Mem. (1907) I. 480, 2 Tufted Holland Wastcoates. 1662 Irish Stat. (1765) II. 411 Linnen cloth or canvas called stript or tufted canvas. 1709 Steele Tatler No. 45 ¶5 A young Gentleman who sat next me..in a tufted Gown. 1774 Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) III. 291 The tail long, and tufted at the point..like the lion. 1815 Kirby & Sp. Entomol. iii. (1818) I. 63 Head..adorned with elegantly tufted antennæ. 1877 Knight Dict. Mech., Tufted fabric, a fabric in which tufts are set, as in the old form of Turkish and Persian carpets. 1960 Textile Terms & Definitions (Textile Inst.) (ed. 4) 152 Tufted Carpet consists essentially of a pile yarn of tufts or loops which is inserted into a pre-woven backing and secured by means of a bonding material. 1963 Which? Mar. 70/2 Tufted carpets..are easier and cheaper to make than Wiltons or Axminsters. Ibid., Tufteds may have cut or loop pile. 1965 Guardian 31 Mar. 14/1 Poor performance fibres..tended to give tufteds such an unwelcome reputation in the 1950s. 1970 Which? Sept. 265/2 There is a..labelling code..which requires that the label gives..the type of construction (eg Axminster, Wilton or tufted). 1981 Times 10 Aug. 16/1 The company..played the pioneering role in introducing the cheaper-to-make tufted carpet to a British market dominated by traditionally woven Axminster or Wilton. |
c. Her. Having the tuft (of the tail) of a specified tincture.
| 1761 Brit. Mag. II. 13 An antelope,..gules;..chained, armed, crested, tufted, and hoofed, or. 1864 Boutell Her. Hist. & Pop. xvii. §3. (ed. 3) 281 An unicorn arg., armed, maned and tufted or. |
d. Of a bird: Having a tuft of feathers upon the head; crested: esp. in Ornith. as the epithet of a particular species.
| 1768 Pennant Zool. II. 458 The Tufted Duck. 1770 M. Bruce in Life, etc. xii. (1914) 176 From her low nest the tufted lark upsprings. 1785 Pennant Arct. Zool. II. 432 Tufted Auk. 1807 P. Hawker Diary (1893) I. 6, I saw 5 tufted ducks. 1833 Tennyson New-Year's Eve v, The tufted plover [will] pipe along the fallow lea. 1883 Fisheries Exhib. Catal. (ed. 4) 134 Tufted Cormorant or ‘Shag’. |
2. Formed into or forming a tuft; growing in a tuft or tufts; clustered.
| 1632 Milton L'Allegro 78 Towers and Battlements..Boosom'd high in tufted Trees. 1637 ― Lycidas 143 The tufted Crow-toe, and pale Gessamine. 1740 Somerville Hobbinol i. 101 The tufted Cowslips breathe their faint Perfume. 1807 Wordsw. Wh. Doe vii. 142 A hut, by tufted trees defended. 1853 C. Rossetti Poems (1904) 152/2 The stream shines silver in the tufted grass. |
3. Nat. Hist. (esp. as the epithet of a particular species or variety: see quots. See also 1 d.) a. Bot. Bearing flowers in tufts or fascicles. b. Bot. and Zool. Growing in tufts, cæspitose.
| 1629 Tufted Colombines [see columbine n.2 3]. 1707 Mortimer Husb. (1721) II. 216 Cowslips are of various kinds..: The double green ones, the single green, the tufted,..&c. 1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 895 The Tufted Vetch..might..be useful..as a green fodder. 1857 Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. IV. 237 L[ysimachia] thyrsiflora (Tufted Loosestrife). 1872 Nicholson Palæont. 95 The corallum is cæspitose, or tufted. Mod. Tufted violas of many colours. |
4. Comb., as tufted-eared, tufted-necked adjs.
| 1811 Shaw Gen. Zool. VIII. 236 Tufted Eared Creeper. Ibid. 345 Tufted-necked Humming-bird. |
Hence ˈtuftedness, the quality of being tufted; in quot. concr. a tufted structure.
| 1665 Hooke Microgr. xlvi. 196 A seeming tuftedness or brushy part on each side. |