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▪ 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.
1526Lett. & Pap. Hen. VIII, IV. 846 A black Milan bonnet, double turfed,..A black single turfed bonnet, with 11½ pair of small aglets. 1547in Feuillerat Revels Edw. VI (1914) 21 One Capp doble turft of grene satten. 1586Rates 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.
1628Feltham Resolves ii. [i.] xxv. 81 Degenerate Man! that hauing so often experimented his Iugling, wilt yet beleeue his fictions, and his turfed Mines. 1649W. 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. 1741Richardson Pamela I. 157 The turfed Slope of the fine Fish-pond. 1862M. Hopkins Hawaii 152 Between the parallel walls, there are turfed spaces terminating suddenly in faults or breaks of some thirty feet depth. 1896Edin. Rev. July 166 Turfed seats with brick fronts appear to be usual. |