RUFFLE

Ruffle

In sewing and dressmaking, a ruffle, frill, or furbelow is a 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.

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ruffle

Noun

  1. Any gathered or curled strip of fabric added as trim or decoration.
    ''She loved the dress with the lace ruffle at the hem.
  2. disturbance; agitation; commotion
    to put the mind in a ruffle
  3. A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruff.
  4. The connected series of large egg capsules, or oothecae, of several species of American marine gastropods of the genus Fulgur.

Verb

  1. To make a ruffle in; to curl or flute, as an edge of fabric.
    Ruffle the end of the cuff.
  2. To disturb; especially, to cause to flutter.
    The wind ruffled the papers.
    Her sudden volley of insults ruffled his composure.
  3. To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.
  4. To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.
  5. To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.
  6. To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
  7. To erect in a ruff, as feathers.
  8. To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
  9. To throw together in a disorderly manner.


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