(n.) A small stuffed cushion or footstool, for kneeling on in church, or for home use.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the moment the trains are so unreliable you never know what time that will be.” (* not her real name ) ‘The strikes just add to a dreadful service’ Facebook Twitter Pinterest Mark King Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian Mark King , who works in marketing and commutes into the City each day from his home in Hassocks, West Sussex, says that seconds after the alarm clock goes off he routinely checks the National Rail app to see whether his train is delayed or cancelled altogether.
(2) As Runcie is the son of an archbishop of Canterbury, the Radio Times should be spared letters about the cassocks and hassocks being wrong for the period.
Pouffe
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The Cube is for people who PVR then series-link Hole In The Wall, then need to Stain Devil urine out of their pouffe because Joe Swash was knocked into a paddling pool wearing a Bacofoil catsuit while imitating the Pharaoh Rameses.
(2) Impervious to the taxidermical horror behind her, Rampling perches on a pouffe and fixes me with her laser gaze.
(3) "He is simply the most creative guy," gasps La Toya Jackson, gripping a banquette to steady herself as Hollywood Me ( Wednesday, 8pm, C4 ) swoons over a dazzling montage of Martyn Lawrence Bullard disco-pouffes, Martyn Lawrence Bullard souk-inspired walnut coffee tables and Martyn Lawrence Bullard Executive Soy Candles™ ($45; brown; influenced apparently by "Moroccan wind").
(4) Uggie descends from the mattress, stretching on to a pouffe at the foot of the bed.