1) Bird plumage 2) Bird native to Europe 3) Bird found in Europe 4) Bridge ploy 5) Bridge term 6) Choker 7) Collar 8) Collar or sandpiper 9) Common Eurasian sandpiper 10) Common sandpiper 11) Decorative old-style collar 12) Dennis the Menace pooch 13) Dog of Dennis the Menace 14) Elizabethan neckpiece
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1) Crossruff 2) Elizabethan collar 3) Fraise 4) Overtrump 5) Reeve 6) Trumping
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- a high tight collar
- (cards) the act of taking a trick with a trump when unable to follow suit
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• (n.) A game similar to whist, and the predecessor of it. • (n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon, having a ruff of its neck. • (v. i. & t.) To trump. • (n.) A muslin or linen collar plaited, crimped, or fluted, worn formerly by both sexes, now only by women and children. • (n.) A set of lengthened or otherwise modified fe...
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Large underground dome, either natural or constructed.
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Thick, longer hair growing around the neck.
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in dresswear, crimped or pleated collar or frill, usually wide and full, worn in Europe, especially from the mid-16th century into the 17th century, ... [4 related articles]
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in zoology, Old World bird (Philomachus pugnax), of the sandpiper subfamily Calidritinae (family Scolopacidae) remarkable for its courtship plumage ... [3 related articles]
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The hairs around a longhaired cat's neck.
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1. A muslin or linen collar plaited, crimped, or fluted, worn formerly by both sexes, now only by women and children. 'Here to-morrow with his best ruff on.' (Shak) 'His gravity is much lessened since the late proclamation came out against ruffs; . . . They were come to that height of excess herein, that twenty shillings were used to be paid for st...
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Ruff intransitive verb & t. (Card Playing) To trump.
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Ruff noun [ French
ronfle ; confer Italian
ronfa , Portuguese
rufa ,
rifa .]
(Card Playing) (a) A game similar to whist, and the predecessor of it.
Nares. (b) The act of trumping, especially when one has no card of the suit led.
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Ruff transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Ruffed ;
present participle & verbal noun Ruffing .]
1. To ruffle; to disorder.
Spenser. 2. (Mil.) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
3. ...
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Collar-like fringe of hair around the neck.
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The ruff (Philomachus pugnax) is a bird belonging to the grallatores (waders) , Scolopacidae family. It was once abundant in Britain.
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In card games a ruff is a card of the suit of trumps. In card games to ruff is to play a card of the suit of trumps when the led card was not of the suit of trumps - to trump.
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A ruff was a circular collar of cambric or lawn in the form of a starched and crimped or pleated frill, fashionable in England between 1550 and 1630 after arriving arrived from France. Ruffs were generally about seven centimetres deep, with a man's ruff being higher at the back than the front so as to follow the line of the jaw.
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Ruff is Black-American slang for a quarter.
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Protruding or lengthened hair around the neck and chest.
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verb play a trump
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trumping noun (card games) the act of taking a trick with a trump when unable to follow suit
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(zoology) Bird
Philomachus pugnax of the sandpiper family Scolopacidae. The name is taken from the frill of erectile purple-black feathers developed in the breeding season around the neck of the male. The females (reeves) have no ruff; they lay four spotted green egg...
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Thick, longer hair growing around the neck.
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profuse growth of hair on the front of the neck, or that surrounds the entire neck.
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A fringe of feather growth on the neck of a male bird used in courtship displays.
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