cuffs

Example Sentences

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Though it stretched for more than two centuries, it’s an era best known for Elizabeth I and Shakespeare, stiff ruffs and courtly processions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

With their distinctive spiny ruffs and zebra stripes, lionfish are among the more flamboyant of coral reef fish species.

From National Geographic • Jan. 29, 2024

It was a romantic, whimsical collection, full of ruffs and harlequin prints and sweeping skirts, and maybe not what we’d expect from a designer known for elegant minimalism.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 10, 2023

The arch verse no less than the ruffs and pantaloons too often turn Cyrano into a preening fop, which is exactly what he isn’t.

From New York Times • Apr. 14, 2022

The house was indeed Elizabethan, with wooden panels along the corridors, ornate chandeliers, and oil paintings of old bearded men in tunics and ruffs.

From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz