Meanings of white ruff in English

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The guard shook his head, scraping his chin across his uniform's white ruff.

Surreptitiously, he licked at his white ruff like a cat to get the blood off.

Ruetha was sitting at the top of the stairs, busy cleaning her white ruff and paws.

Perhaps you will help me tie this around his neck, and he held out the white ruff.

The feathers were of a glossy black hue, with a white ruff at the base of the neck.

She dressed in the smartest possible mourning, and with that white ruff across her placid brow-Ohlà là!

His bright, keen face set off by his white ruff and pricked ears made a dog to catch the eye anywhere.

With convex staring eyes-hairless nose-andwhite ruff of fur round his face-hevery closely resembled in physiognomy, some grey-whiskered guzzling citizen.

Soon the priest came in sight, wearing his black robe and white ruff; there were doubtless to be other funerals that day.

As he spoke he stretched forth his hand and caught in his clawlike grasp the dainty white ruff that encircled Madge's neck.

His beard was of a reddish tinge, trimmed square and bushy, beneath which his white ruff seemed to glisten from the sudden contrast.

It was one of the earliest pictures-Elizabethan , Ithink ;therewas a small white ruff at the top of the man's high collar.

Around his neck is a white ruff trimmed with black, and at the base of his tail are five pairs of vermilion feathers.

They were two Protestant clergymen in the easily recognised official costume of their faith-a long, black robe and a white ruff around the neck.

Philip nodded so eagerly that his stiff white ruff was pushed awry, and then, with patronizing approval, added: 'So every nobleman ought to think.