sb. Obs. Also 6 stuphe, stewfe, 7 stuph, stuffe. [ad. It. stufa.] A hot-air bath: = STOVE sb.1
1533. Elyot, Cast. Helthe (1541), 72 b. Moderate sweatynge in hot bathes or stufes be to this complexion necessary.
1547. Boorde, Brev. Health, § 292. Vse than [for itching] purgacions and stuphes and sweates.
1549. Thomas, Hist. Italie 28. The Romaines vsed oftentime, to bathe theim selfes, wherfore … priuate men made them stewfes or hotehouses of theyr owne.
1631. Jorden, Nat. Bathes, i. (1669), 2. Vapours [Baths] are Stuphs and Hot Houses.
a. 1697. Aubrey, Lives, Bacon (1898), I. 78. There were two bathing-roomes or stuffes, whither his Lordship retired afternoons as he sawe cause.
attrib. 1598. Florio, Stufaiuolo, a bathe or stufe-keeper.
Hence † Stufe v.
1598. Florio, Stufare, to stue meate, to stufe, or bathe in a whot house.
