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 ofsteam issuing from afissure in theearth .
Etymologies
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Italian stufa ("stove").
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Examples
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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.
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