Tuft

A tuft of hair showed from underneath her cap.

So wailed Creusa, and in wild despair / filled all the palace with her sobs and cries, / when lo! a portent, wondrous to declare. / For while, 'twixt sorrowing parents' hands and eyes, / stood young Iulus, wildered with surprise, / up from the summit of his fair, young head / a tuft was seen of flickering flame to rise. / Gently and harmless to the touch it spread / around his tender brows, and on his temples fed.

A tuft of hair was showing from under her hat.

A tuft of hair was showing from beneath her cap.

Cambodian Tailorbird (Orthotomus chaktomuk), a small, light and dark grey bird with an orange-red tuft, was described by scientists as "hiding in plain sight" in Cambodia's capital Phnom Penh when first spotted in 2009.

Cookie is a black cat with a white tuft of fur between two of her toes.

“Not far from this place, there is a tuft of about a dozen of tall beeches […].”

A college tutor, or a nobleman’s toady, who appears one fine day as my right reverend lord, in a silk apron and a shovel-hat, and assumes benedictory airs over me, is still the same man we remember at Oxbridge, when he was truckling to the tufts, and bullying the poor undergraduates in the lecture-room.

Several young tufts, and others of the faster men.

His tufted cottage rising through the snow