Ruffles
[rʌflz]
Examples
- But he will be very handsomely dressed in a court suit, with ruffles, and his hair a little powdered, like Mr. Wroughton at Covent Garden. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The person who works the lace of a pair of fine ruffles for example, will sometimes raise the value of, perhaps, a pennyworth of flax to ?30 sterling. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- More elation and more anxiety; an excitement that steals the hours away fast, and a trouble that ruffles their course. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He sat on a bench, with his hoops and ruffles and high powdered head, his point laced lappets, &c. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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