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   ruff

   /rʌf/

   noun

   • 1. a projecting starched frill worn round the neck, characteristic of Elizabethan and Jacobean costume: "an Elizabethan ruff"
   • 2. a projecting or conspicuously coloured ring of feathers or hair round the neck of a bird or mammal: "a ruff of long pointed feathers"
   • 3. a pigeon of a domestic breed with a ruff of feathers on its neck.
   • 4. a North Eurasian wading bird, the male of which has a large variously coloured ruff and ear tufts in the breeding season, used in display.

   Word Origin early 16th century (first used denoting a frill around a sleeve): probably from a variant of rough.

   Derivatives

   • 1. ruffed adjective

   Scrabble Points: 10

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