Meanings of elizabethan ruff in English

He's still in costume- abillowingwhite affair with multicolored polka dots, a triangular hat, and Elizabethan ruff.

I noticed a clergyman in his priestly robes, his Elizabethan ruff around his neck, his breast covered with decorations.

Seated pensively behind the urn was a fair girl, dressed in black, with an Elizabethan ruff round a long white throat.

His lean face was dark by contrast, and ended in a curt black beard that looked Spanish and suggested an Elizabethan ruff.

He noticed that she danced several times with the plain young man in the Elizabethan ruff, and that they seemed very good friends.

That may sound like a needlessly dry interpretation of four female performers manning a flip chart and video projections while wearing jaunty Elizabethan ruffs.

"We might go in and change our costumes," said Mrs. Peterkin, who already found her Elizabethan ruff somewhat stiff; "but, alas!