ruffle
/ˈɹʌfəl/ noun C1- Any gathered or curled strip of fabric added as trim or decoration. · She loved the dress with the lace ruffle at the hem.
- Disturbance; agitation; commotion. · to put the mind in a ruffle
- A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruff.
- The connected series of large egg capsules, or oothecae, of several species of American marine gastropods of the genus Fulgur.
Plural ruffles
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Oh, how pretty it was--a lovely soft brown gloria with all the gloss of silk; a skirt with dainty frills and shirrings; a waist elaborately pintucked in the most fashionable way, with a little ruffle of filmy lace at the neck.
The yacht moved rapidly on, though there did not appear to be sufficient wind to ruffle the curls on the head of a young girl.
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