noun Etymology: earlier tuph, tuft porous rock, from Middle French tuf, from Old Italian tufo Date: 1815 a rock composed of the finer kinds of volcanic detritus usually fused together by heat, ~aceous adjective
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Meaning of TUFF in English
Merriam Webster. Explanatory English dictionary Merriam Webster. Толковый словарь английского языка Мерриам-Уэбстер. 2012