No, not a golden throne, she's sitting on a tuffet of ivy.
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So, of course, yes to the copper-topped table that was a seventh-anniversary present to Ms. Colin from Mr. Deas; yes to the whimsical pink tuffet; yes to the pitcher the couple bought in Mexico, the bowl from Turkey and the pair of hand-carved sticks they bought outside Victoria Falls.
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Although the word "tuffet" is now sometimes used to mean a type of low seat, the word in the rhyme probably refers to a grassy hillock, small knoll or mound (a variant spelling of an obsolete and rare meaning of "tuft"). See entries for "Tuffet 2." and "Tuft 3b." The Oxford English Dictionary calls the "hassock or footstool" meaning "doubtful", and "perhaps due to misunderstanding of the nursery rhyme".
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Attorney Francois Marcoux and clerical secretary Martin deHarrabilague, both residing in this city.”In French: "pour aller en l'Isle du Cap Breton, pais de la Nouvelle France, et de travailler pour les Sieurs Tuffet, Duchainin et Chevery, de son métier de charpentier et autres choses qui leurs seront commandées par le Sieur Tuffet, commandant du fort Saint- Pierre en la dite isle". Cyr, Leo G. (1985) Madawaskan Heritage. Bethesda: Leo G. Cyr, p. 92.
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Miss Muffet sitting on a tuffet, or grassy mound, by John Everett Millais, 1884 A tuffet is a small grassy mound or clump of grass; or alternatively a low seat. The word is now known overwhelmingly from the nursery rhyme "Little Miss Muffet" which was first printed in 1805. It was originally a variant of the word "tuft" (e.g. of leaves or flowers), a usage which dates back at least to the 16th century.
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A Kate Greenaway illustration of 1900, showing a tuffet as a three-legged stool A Frederick Richardson illustration of 1915, showing a tuffet as a low seat A 1940 poster, showing a tuffet as a low seat The Oxford English Dictionary gives a secondary definition "hassock or footstool", but calls this "doubtful". It lists an example from 1895 in which the meaning is "a three-legged stool" and another from 1904 with the meaning "footstool". Some sources, including Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) and Chambers 20th Century Dictionary (1983), failed to recognise this meaning at all, and listed only the grassy knoll definition. Nevertheless, there is a long tradition of illustrators showing some sort of low seat, including Kate Greenaway (1900) and Frederick Richardson (1915).
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An Arthur Rackham illustration of 1913, showing a tuffet as a grassy mound According to the Oxford English Dictionary the word in the nursery rhyme may refer to "a grassy hillock, a small knoll or mound". Recorded examples of "tuffet" with the related meaning "tuft" (for example a cluster of short-stalked leaves or flowers growing from a common point) date back to 1553. Merriam-Webster suggests that the word derives from the Anglo-French , from "tufe", meaning "tuft". Many illustrators have shown Miss Muffet sitting on a mound or hillock, including John Everett Millais (1884) and Arthur Rackham (1913).
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An ottoman can also be used as and called a "footstool", tuffet, hassock, or pouffe. "Ottoman" may also denote an upholstered seat without a back or arms, but one that usually serves as storage, with the seat hinged to form a lid.
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Jack decides to climb it and discovers a castle in the clouds. There, he finds The Goose That Lays the Golden Eggs (played by Stewie), but wakes up the Giant (played by Chris), who challenges him to a fight. Jack chooses to run away and flees down the beanstalk where Rumpelforeskin (played by Quagmire) is sawing it down for blocking his view of Little Miss Muffet's tuffet (he needs to see her tuffet to make curds and whey), though he couldn't get help from the off- screen Little Boy Brown (played by Cleveland) since he can't find his gloves. Jack reaches the ground and the beanstalk falls which kills the giant.
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The rhyme first appeared in print in Songs for the Nursery (1805), and there have been many variants since. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes gives the following: > :Little Miss Muffet :Sat on a tuffet, :Eating her curds and whey; :There > came a big spider, :Who sat down beside her :And frightened Miss Muffet > away. Older versions sometimes use "of" rather than "her" in line 3, and refer to a "little spider" as in this example dating between 1837 and 1845: > :Little Miss Muffet :She sat on a tuffet, :Eating of curds and whey; :There > came a little spider, :Who sat down beside her, :And frighten'd Miss Muffet > away. There are several early-published versions with significant variations including "Little Mary Ester sat upon a tester" (1812) and "Little Miss Mopsey, Sat in the shopsey" (1842).
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Charadra deridens (laugher or marbled tuffet moth) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada, through most of the United States except the south-western states. Charadra ingenua, now considered a synonym of Charadra deridens 200px The wingspan is 38–48 mm. Adults are on wing from May to August in the north.
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Peel Island is considered to be one of the origins of the fictional Wild Cat Island in the 1930 book Swallows and Amazons and its sequels, by Arthur Ransome. Taqui Altounyan, sister of Roger Altounyan and inspiration for one of the characters in Swallows and Amazons, described Peel Island in her autobiography In Aleppo Oncep.179. as "like a green tuffet, sitting in the water, the trees covering the rocks". The island also features in W. G. Collingwood's novel Thorstein of the Mere, A Saga of the Northmen in Lakeland.
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Drawn like Spires is the debut album from Radarmaker. The band started recording the album in July 2005 with the ambition to release before Christmas, however the band later rescheduled the release to 8 July 2006 to accommodate a larger track list. They chose to again work with producer Trevor Bryan Cotton at Shogun Studios and the album was mastered by local producer Neil Rabinowitz of found: quantity of sheep fame. The following tracks are included on the album: #"Balthazaar" #"Shallow Socialites (Battle The Axe)" #"Clodhopper" #"Gary Oldman" #"Matabo Elektrwerkzeuge" #"Squibbon" #"Sashegyi" #"Stop Being A Wanker" #"Domovoi" #"Toaster" #"Whoop Tuffet" #"Ogden's Cormorant" #"Trees of Greenland" A promotional video for "Stop Being a Wanker" was released and broadcast on rage, it was directed by Noah Norton and edited by Wendi Graham.
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The Missal, by John William Waterhouse (1902), depicts a woman kneeling on a prie-dieu, a piece of furniture with a built-in kneeler A kneeler is a cushion (also called a tuffet or hassock) or a piece of furniture used for resting in a kneeling position during Christian prayer. Church of St Mary in Bideford in Devon in the UK In many churches, pews are equipped with kneelers in front of the seating bench so members of the congregation can kneel on them instead of the floor. In a few other situations, such as confessionals and areas in front of an altar, kneelers for kneeling during prayer or sacraments may also be used. Traditionally, altar rails often have built-in knee cushions to facilitate reception of Holy Communion while kneeling.
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Among them, Ali Baba, The Wizard of Oz, Pinocchio, Alice in Wonderland, Winnie-the-Pooh, Peter and the Wolf, Davy Jones' Locker, A Pageant of Puppet Variety, Holiday on Strings, People is the Thing That the World is Fullest Of, Bil Baird's Band-Wagon, and The Whistling Wizard and the Sultan of Tuffet. In 1972, Baird created an educational short film called Cartonella which told about the importance of milk, the short was a typical 'Damsel in Distress' story which featured the eponymously named "Cartonella", who was a fortune telling cow. this character would later become one of Baird's most popular characters, even having her own float during the 1974/75 Macy's Day Parades. In 1977, Baird temporarily closed down the theater so he could create another show at Busch Gardens: The Old Country called Once Upon a Dragon, which replaced a show created by Sid and Marty Krofft called the Camelot Revue and was regularly performed at the Reynold's Aluminum Puppet Theater in the Hastings, England section of the park from 1977 to 1978.
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