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Definition of Puffs
1. puff [v] - See also: puff
Lexicographical Neighbors of Puffs
Literary usage of Puffs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"Principal among these puffs are the DNA puffs where, besides an enhanced RNA
synthesis, ... Inhibition of puffs in cells under different experimental and ..."
2. A New System of Domestic Cookery: Formed Upon Principles of Economy and by Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell (1824)
"Lemon puffs. Beat and sift a pound and a quarter of double-refined sugar; ...
Cheese puffs. Strain cheese-curd from the whey, and beat half a pint basin of ..."
3. Modern Cookery, in All Its Branches: Reduced to a System of Easy Practice by Eliza Acton (1845)
"GERMAN puffs. Pound to a perfectly smooth paste two ounces of sweet almonds and
six bitter ones; mix with them, by slow degrees, the yolks of six, ..."
4. The Ftc Cigarette Test Method for Determining Tar, Nicotine & Carbon edited by Donald R. Shopland (1997)
"The average number of puffs taken per cigarette by human smokers was 11; FTC does
not publish the number of puffs taken from a cigarette by the machine. ..."
5. The American Pastry Cook: A Book of Perfected Receipts for Making All Sorts by Jessup Whitehead (1894)
"If a list had to be made of the articles of pastry held highest in popular esteem,
cream puffs would be found somewhere near the beginning. ..."
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