Difference between Pouffe and Puff

What is the difference between Pouffe and Puff?

Pouffe as a noun is a thick cushion, sometimes of leather, used as a seat or a footstool, also pouf. while Puff as a noun is a sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth.

Pouffe

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A thick cushion, sometimes of leather, used as a seat or a footstool, also pouf.

Puff

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs.To pant.To advertise (archaic)

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth.The ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself.A small quantity of gas or smoke in the air.An act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe.A flamboyant or alluring statement about an object's quality.The drug cannabis.A light cake filled with cream, cream cheese, etc.a homosexual; a poof

Example sentence: To make a full-blooded puff pastry, you need time, you need patience, and you need precision. It's all about the lamination: it's all about building up the layers of butter, dough, butter, dough; as the butter melts, it creates steam, and that brings up the layers of the two doughs apart from each other, and that's what gives it the rise.

We hope you now know whether to use Pouffe or Puff in your sentence.

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