"tuffet" is a correct and usable English word.
It is a noun that refers to a low seat or footstool, typically one that is cushiony. You can use it in any written English context where the meaning is relevant. Example: The little girl sat on her tuffet, contentedly playing with her dolls.
Those who are not Jay-Z have been known to spend hours waiting to be granted a tartan-covered tuffet.
IT'S just past noon on a Tuesday in late October, and Christine Mortimer Biddle is sequestered on a tuffet in a pastel pink powder room at the Metropolitan Club on the Upper East Side, her Hermès bag by her feet and a laptop on her knees.
(She was wearing a monstrously poufy dress by Christian Siriano that looked as if she had sat on a tuffet and brought it along for the night).
"I'm very much an A personality," she said, delivering that unsurprising bit of news while perched on a tuffet in her library last week.
The full menu is available, though I can't imagine perching on a tuffet not much higher than a footstool to eat a $125 dinner.
Nope, and that's a pity, because C. Wonder's dressing rooms, sequestered behind an enormous blue velvet tuffet, are among the most pleasant I've ever experienced, with wood paneling, carpeting and a console that permits customers to tactfully dim the light, or select from eight flavors of "mood music" (including blessed silence).
Diners slump in half-moon booths, attempting to spin the lazy susan secreted in each glossy tabletop, or hunch on plush tuffets around communal tables, sneaking peeks at the neighbors.
Outside, where the aim was to show, as Mr. Lewis put it, the "excitement and energy" of a space that could easily hold 50 people, Mr. Lewis chose to accent the more neutral elements with acid green seating and bright orange tuffets.
On the moorland side of stone walls, mosses green the dull turf, cling to trunks of yellow-flowered gorse, and soften tuffets and boulders.
A cornucopia of vibrantly colored tuffets and one gamboling (pussy?) cat bursts exuberantly out of a wood-framed chair whose purple upholstery has gone all procreative.
"They could pitch in and say, 'Try that!' " He wants information to flow among groups at the Flatiron Institute, too, so there are plenty of chalkboards in the hallways, and communal areas coffee nooks, tuffets arranged in rows where fellows can "sit around and schmooze".
