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Definition of Ruffly
1. not smooth [adj -FLIER, -FLIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ruffly
Literary usage of Ruffly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (1903)
"... all ruby color — thin, you know, with a sweeping train and ruffly, curly
edges ; then I think I '11 have a brown sash like the trunk of the tree, ..."
2. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (1910)
"When I 'm old enough to earn money, I 'm going to have a dress like this leaf,
all ruby color — thin, you know, with a sweeping train and ruffly, ..."
3. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept, Southern Pacific Company (1912)
"... some double as carnations, some single with ruffly edges, and others with deep
yellow throats or lips tinged with gay color, one thinks with tenderness ..."
4. Library Journal by American Library Association, Library Association, Richard Rogers Bowker, Charles Ammi Cutter (1907)
"... too, who can be singled out from the fluffy ruffly kii ds by dozens, and there
are girls with character and spirit, from Alice, with her sense of humor, ..."
5. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography by Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1919)
"... ica now stands in danger of being handled ruffly by one Side or the other, if
not by both—Is there not danger then that we must Submit in a disgraceful ..."
6. Maryland Historical Magazine by Maryland Historical Society (1915)
"... the Interest of his employer: A Little spar takes place: I feel myself strong;
wrote an agreemen* ruffly which was Executed & binding me to make a title ..."
7. Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne: Taken from Original Sources by John Ashton (1882)
"... would give a Farthing for the Show, they were sometimes forc'd to play a little
ruffly. I once saw a much deeper and longer Cut given than was intended. ..."
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