▪ I. † ˈturfed, a. Obs.
Also 6 turft.
[f. turf n.2 + -ed2. See also tarfed s.v. tarf.]
Provided, adorned, or turned up with a facing, as a cap, a sleeve, etc.
| 1526 Lett. & Pap. Hen. VIII, IV. 846 A black Milan bonnet, double turfed,..A black single turfed bonnet, with 11½ pair of small aglets. 1547 in Feuillerat Revels Edw. VI (1914) 21 One Capp doble turft of grene satten. 1586 Rates of Customs B j, Caps double turfed called cockred caps the dosen xxxiiij .s. |
▪ II. turfed, ppl. a.
(tɜːft)
[f. turf v.1 + -ed1.]
Overlaid or covered with turf.
| 1628 Feltham Resolves ii. [i.] xxv. 81 Degenerate Man! that hauing so often experimented his Iugling, wilt yet beleeue his fictions, and his turfed Mines. 1649 W. Blithe Eng. Improv. Impr. (1653) 61 For although I differ from many..about this denshiring their thin turved Lands, that are pure from roots, twitch, or moss. 1741 Richardson Pamela I. 157 The turfed Slope of the fine Fish-pond. 1862 M. Hopkins Hawaii 152 Between the parallel walls, there are turfed spaces terminating suddenly in faults or breaks of some thirty feet depth. 1896 Edin. Rev. July 166 Turfed seats with brick fronts appear to be usual. |