shaggytuft

alternative shaggy tuft

1. obsoleteA rug made of cotton shag.

   SHAGGY TUFT - All-cotton loop pile on heavy canvas makes this a luxurious rug for your bedroom.

   1948 June 5, “BEDROOM RUGS”, in The Daily Colonist, Victoria, B.C., page 7

   2 more examples

   Shaggytuft, a high pile shaggy surfaced cotton rug with a lustrous sheen which is laundered and pre-shrunk. Shaggytuft is shown in 20 decorative colors, including chartreuse, gray, dusty rose, cantaloupe, golden glow[…]

   1938, Rug Profits, volume 28

   SHAGGYTUFT. . . newest and smartest of the increasingly popular shaggy-texture fabrics . . . rich, thick and luxuriously soft . . . and REVERSIBLE!

   1942, Interiors, volume 101, number 8, page 68

2. biologyAny of the genus Stenandrium of flowering plants.

   A dwarf, tufted, grayish plant with short spikes of pink-rose bilateral flowers nestled among the leaves.

   1979, Richard Spellenberg, “Shaggy Tuft (Stenandrium barbatum)”, in The Audubon Society field guide to North American wildflowers, western region, page 316

   Synonyms: stenandrium, gerardia