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 Tuffet (A).Tuft-hunter. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Tuft.
 
A nobleman or fellow commoner. So called at Oxford because he wears a gold tuft or tassel on his college cap.   1
 


 Tuffet (A).Tuft-hunter. 

 
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