Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of ruff.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A ruff for the neck.
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- noun obsolete A
ruff for theneck .
Etymologies
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Spanish cuello
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Examples
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Flos campi di6la tibi quellio puelU Floris habens pidta venerari fronde capelU*
Antient funeral monuments, of Great-Britain, Ireland, and the islands adjacent 1767
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‘quellio’ (cuello), a ruff or _neck_-collar; and ‘matachin’, the title of a sword-dance; these are all frequent in our early dramatists; and
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
avivamagnolia commented on the word quellio
Spanish ruffian
January 17, 2009