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- noun Plural form of
ruff .
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Examples
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"Look here, Dick, at the decoys," cried Tom running to a large wicker cage in which were four of the curious long-legged birds known as ruffs and reeves.
Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp George Manville Fenn 1870
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Significant populations of Palaearctic birds winter here, with several thousand wigeon (Anas penelope) and shovelers (Anas clypeata) observed in the Bale Mountains, along with waders such as ruffs (Philomachus pugnax) and greenshanks (Tringa nebularia).
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They are followed by a hauntingly lovely choral performance from a gaggle of angelic-looking preadolescent boys in red robes and comically large ruffs.
Farihah Zaman: 2010 Fantastic Fest #1: Remakes - did we Let the Right One In? Farihah Zaman 2010
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They have acquired their summer plumage and look glorious with those long lax ruffs of fox-brown feathers.
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They are followed by a hauntingly lovely choral performance from a gaggle of angelic-looking preadolescent boys in red robes and comically large ruffs.
Farihah Zaman: 2010 Fantastic Fest #1: Remakes - did we Let the Right One In? Farihah Zaman 2010
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They are followed by a hauntingly lovely choral performance from a gaggle of angelic-looking preadolescent boys in red robes and comically large ruffs.
Farihah Zaman: 2010 Fantastic Fest #1: Remakes - did we Let the Right One In? Farihah Zaman 2010
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Declarer ruffs and cashes 11 more rounds of spades.
Time to go 2012
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And so with the cock bird, displaying his feathered ruffs and furbelows, dancing strange antics and spilling out his heart in song.
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Then the defenders can't draw trumps and declarer just cross-ruffs.
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Please give him a few friendly "er-ruffs" from me.
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