Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A jet of steam issuing from a fissure of the earth in volcanic regions.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A jet of steam issuing from a fissure in the earth.

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  • noun A jet of steam issuing from a fissure in the earth.

Etymologies

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Italian stufa ("stove").

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Examples

  • In such apartments as contain no fire-place, a stufa, or portable stove, is set, which diffuses little warmth, and renders the air insupportably close and suffocating.

    The Diary of an Ennuyée 1827

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