ruffler
Britishnoun
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a person or thing that ruffles
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an attachment on a sewing machine used for making frills
Example Sentences
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"Uncle Charlie," as his Columbia students called him, was also a great ruffler of conventional thought.
From Time Magazine Archive
The ruffling is sometimes very nice and interesting and often gives the ruffler a good position in the glorious company of earlier rufflers——" "I shouldn't be satisfied with anything like that.
From Bertram Cope's Year by Henry Blake Fuller
Sit you upon your chair that I may call one to send this ruffler here.'
From The Fifth Queen Crowned by Ford Madox Ford
He showed me how to thread bobbin and needle, how to operate ruffler and tucker, and also how to turn off and on the electric current which operated the machinery.
From The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself by Dorothy Richardson
I marvel," said Raoul, as if he heard her not, "that yonder ruffler comes hither.
From The Betrothed by Sir Walter Scott
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