Strip of fabric, lace or ribbon tightly gathered or pleated on one edge and applied to a garment, bedding, or other textile as a form of trimming; more smooth than ruffle.
I was startled; Olympos was usually impossible to shock or even ruffle.
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He could see the dull ruffle of the water under the wind.
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Such endeavours appeared to ruffle Belvedere, and certainly disrupted any game plan.
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The second photograph shows a Galliano ruffle dress hanging on a stand.
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His tempers were the ruffle of a passing breeze upon deep water.
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The front has a deep frill tacked on all around the chair.
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A tuft of pink frill escaped from one side of the gag.
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Nothing might she wear but her plain black frock and white frill.
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I had an embroidered frill and very fine ruffles of point d'Alencon.
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Round its hilt was a frill of paper, on which was scrawled:
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She gave a moue and a flounce in reply, and swished out.
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You will see a double flounce running round the bottom of it.
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You don't let your customers down and flounce off without a care.
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A curly fair hair flew from one linen flounce into the sunlight.
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With a flounce, Lilith tossed her head and stepped into the circle.
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He has made no attempt to furbelow our finances.
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Her sex was the very essence of her; she had no need to wear it like a furbelow.
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A furbelow of precious stones, a hat buttoned with a diamond, a brocade waistcoat or petticoat, are standing topics.
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The dresses held an atmosphere of evaporated frivolity; flirtations lingered in every frill, and memories of old larks lurked in every furbelow.
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The objects, ranging from furbelow clams to Indian blowguns, were borrowed from the Museum of Natural History and the New York Botanical Garden.
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You are innately volant if left to yourself.
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They looked through the glass cages at these volant pterosaurs with American Airlines branded on their skins.
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The arms are quarterly: first and fourth, vert, a herring, argent; second and third, azure, a solan-goose, volant, or.
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Indeed, no book, however witty, lively, saltatory, can have the volant effects we covet, if it want substance and seriousness.
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Clearly, given their biodiversity, distribution, and abundance, novel methods would be necessary to consider meaningful control of rabies in these unique volant mammals.
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The effect of the ornate overskirt falling on the plain underskirt with its small double volant was, she thought, and Gerald too, adorable.
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I have considered the structure of all volant animals, and find the folding continuity of the bat's wings most easily accommodated to the human form.
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Quarterly 1st and 4th Gules, on a fesse wavy argent, between three pitchers double eared or, as many bees volant proper.
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I have learned that you occupy the haunted room in the Dragon Volant.
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What room do you occupy in the Dragon Volant?
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Then there was Cerf Volant, that most perfect Esquimaux.
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I scaled the park wall again, and reached the Dragon Volant before its doors were closed.
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I WAS now upon the road, within two or three hundred yards of the Dragon Volant.
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It is only a mile away, and an old comfortable inn, called the Le Dragon Volant.
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Cerf Volant entered readily into friendship, upon an under-standing of an additional half-fish at supper every evening.
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It is chocolate time for French children this morning, thanks to les cloches volantes -the flying bells.