ruffe
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of ruffe
C15: perhaps an alteration of rough (referring to its scales)
Example Sentences
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The female is called a Reeve without any ruffe about the neck, lesser then the other & hardly to bee got.
From Notes and Letters on the Natural History of Norfolk More Especially on the Birds and Fishes by Sir Thomas Browne
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
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
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
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