touffu

Updated: May 5, 2025

Gustavus Brander about 100 years ago, and sold by him to Lord Radnor. As is the case with Flemish wood-carving, it is often difficult to identify German work, but its chief characteristics may be said to include an exuberant realism and a fondness for minute detail. M. Bonnaffé has described this work in a telling phrase: "l'ensemble est tourmenté, laborieux, touffu tumultueux."

Frederick Litchfield - Illustrated History of Furniture: From the Earliest to the Present Time

Tylor's account of the process by which Gods were evolved out of ghosts is a little touffu rather buried in facts. That such moral, practically omniscient Gods are known to the very lowest savages Bushmen, Fuegians, Australians we shall demonstrate.

Andrew Lang - The Making of Religion