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† stufe, n. Obs.
Also 6 stuphe, stewfe, 7 stuph, stuffe.
[ad. It. stufa.]
A hot-air bath: = stove n.1
1533Elyot Cast. Helthe (1541) 72 b, Moderate sweatynge in hot bathes or stufes be to this complexion necessary. 1547Boorde Brev. Health §292 Vse than [for itching] purgacions and stuphes and sweates. 1549Thomas Hist. Italie 28 The Romaines vsed oftentime, to bathe theim selfes, wherfore..priuate men made them stewfes or hotehouses of theyr owne. 1631E. Jorden Nat. Bathes i. (1669) 2 Vapours [Baths] are Stuphs and Hot Houses. a1697Aubrey Lives, Bacon (1898) I. 78 There were two bathing-roomes or stuffes, whither his Lordship retired afternoons as he sawe cause.
attrib.1598Florio, Stufaiuolo, a bathe or stufe-keeper.
Hence † stufe v.
1598Florio, Stufare, to stue meate, to stufe, or bathe in a whot house. |