ruffled
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They wears no ruffes at all; The best haue collers set with pearle, which they Rubasca call.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04 by Hakluyt, Richard
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 Disraeli, Isaac
Compare a passage from Holland’s Leaguer, 1632: “A tyre-woman of phantastical ornaments, a sempster for ruffes, cuffes, smocks and waistcoats”.
From English Past and Present by Palmer, Abram Smythe
Besides all this their shadows, their spots, their lawnes, their leefekyes, their ruffes, their rings, shew them rather cardinalls curtisans then modest matrons....
From The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare by Jusserand, J. J.
I, Madam, but they saie, he will beat one in jest, and byte in kindenesse, and teare ones ruffes in Courtshippe.
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)
