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Meanings of ruffle in English
Synonyms
Examples for "frill"
Examples for "frill"
1
The front has a deep frill tacked on all around the chair.
2
A tuft of pink frill escaped from one side of the gag.
3
Nothing might she wear but her plain black frock and white frill.
4
I had an embroidered frill and very fine ruffles of point d'Alencon.
5
Round its hilt was a frill of paper, on which was scrawled:
1
She gave a moue and a flounce in reply, and swished out.
2
You will see a double flounce running round the bottom of it.
3
You don't let your customers down and flounce off without a care.
4
A curly fair hair flew from one linen flounce into the sunlight.
5
With a flounce, Lilith tossed her head and stepped into the circle.
1
A train of white glacé trimmed with a ruche of white crape.
2
Finish round with a ruche of satin ribbon or fringe, crimson colour.
3
Her face was whiter than the widow's ruche she wore in her black bonnet.
4
Under the brim was a white WIDOW'S ruche.
5
A ruche of white is now placed just inside the bonnet, which relieves the black effect somewhat.
1
He has made no attempt to furbelow our finances.
2
Her sex was the very essence of her; she had no need to wear it like a furbelow.
3
A furbelow of precious stones, a hat buttoned with a diamond, a brocade waistcoat or petticoat, are standing topics.
4
The dresses held an atmosphere of evaporated frivolity; flirtations lingered in every frill, and memories of old larks lurked in every furbelow.
5
The objects, ranging from furbelow clams to Indian blowguns, were borrowed from the Museum of Natural History and the New York Botanical Garden.
Usage of ruffle in English
1
I was startled; Olympos was usually impossible to shock or even ruffle.
2
He could see the dull ruffle of the water under the wind.
3
Such endeavours appeared to ruffle Belvedere, and certainly disrupted any game plan.
4
The second photograph shows a Galliano ruffle dress hanging on a stand.
5
His tempers were the ruffle of a passing breeze upon deep water.
6
A ruffle round the skirt about two inches when that is done.
7
It has a skirt with nine gores and a twelve-inch headed ruffle.
8
Miss Winch, in Detroit, had seemed a girl whom nothing could ruffle.
9
They ruffle everything now, and it will be wide enough for that.
10
Her taunts and jealous fits, her insistent demands did not ruffle me.
11
Satin-like tops had voluminous ruffle endings and were worn with slim trousers.
12
Angélique lifted a ruffle of tante-gra'mère's nightcap and whispered in her ear.
13
Just ruffle your hair a bit, sir-nowyou should do very nicely.
14
She powdered her nose, fixed her neck ruffle, apparently oblivious of Jarvis.
15
He snorted with enough force to ruffle the papers on his desk.
16
Even at eight it took a great deal to ruffle Dora's placidity.
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United Kingdom
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