black ruff

American  

noun

1. a large, blackish, pelagic fish, Centrolophus niger, of the Atlantic Ocean, chiefly along the coast of Europe.

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Example Sentences

The wind played across his black ruff and his ears twitched from time to time as he listened to the birds and winds in his sleep.

From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George

He was standing with his small head thrust forward upon a finely arched neck which was circled by a handsome outstanding black ruff, fully as wide as his body.

From The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure by Heming, Arthur Henry Howard

At the lower part of the neck it wears a black ruff.

From On the Banks of the Amazon by Groome, William H. C.

Her hair rose in a black ruff round her head, her eyes were very black in the sharp whiteness of her face.

From Anne Severn and the Fieldings by Sinclair, May

Look at the crimson round his eye, Frank, like a cock pheasant's, and his black ruff or tippet--by George! but he's a beauty!

From Warwick Woodlands Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago by Herbert, Henry William