Read full poem →9 With whiskers, band, and pantaloon,
And ruff composed most duly,
This squire he dropp'd his pen full soon,
Dictionary Entry
A circular frill or ruffle on a garment, especially a starched, fluted frill at the neck in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (1560s–1620s).
Origin
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Common Phrases
. ruffaround ruffet ruffsaid ruffruff peterruff whiteruff thomasruff lace
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Poetry examples for “ruff”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →May yet be there; and godwit if we can;
Knat, rail, and ruff, too. Howsoe’er, my man
Shall read a piece of Virgil, Tacitus,
Read full poem →He wears a hat now of the flat-crown block,[498]
The treble ruff,[499] long coat, and doublet French:
He takes tobacco, and doth wear a lock,[500]
Read full poem →I 've seen you with St. John: O stockishness!
Wear such a ruff, and never call to mind
St. John's head in a charger? How, the plague,
Read full poem →Uncouth words in disarray,
Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet,
Ode, and elegy, and sonnet.
Read full poem →Uncouth words in disarray,
Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet,
Ode, and elegy, and sonnet.
Read full poem →Cawehlin, James T. Railroad Av.
Ruff, Mary, vs
Rich, William, Main St.