ruffe

British

/ rʌf /

noun

Also called: pope. a European freshwater teleost fish, Acerina cernua , having a single spiny dorsal fin: family Percidae (perches)

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Etymology

Origin of ruffe

C15: perhaps an alteration of _rough (referring to its scales)

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Divers noble personages made them ruffes, a full quarter of a yeard deepe, and two lengthe in one ruffe.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli

You shall know him by his narrow velvet cape and serge facing, and his ruffe, next his hire, the shortest thing about him....

From Notes and Queries, Number 23, April 6, 1850 by Various

Out of your little ruffe, Dorcas, and in the fashion!

From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by John Earle

Well I know whence comes the titmouse, That the titmouse is a birdie, And a snake the hissing viper, And the ruffe a fish in water.

From Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) The Land of the Heroes by W. F. (William Forsell) Kirby

This couplet may give a little sketch of the man we should now see before us: ‘His ruffe is set, his head set in his ruff; His reverend trunks become him well enough.’

From English Costume by Dion Clayton Calthrop

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