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Related topics: Clothes, Birds, Biologyruff /rʌf/ noun [countable] 1. DCCa stiff circular white collar, worn in the 16th century 飞边〔流行于16世纪的一种白色轮状硬领〕2. HBBa circle of feathers or fur around the neck of an animal or bird 〔兽的〕颈毛；〔鸟的〕颈羽Examples from the Corpusruff• Ruff ruff ruff ruff ruff ruff ruff ruff ruff ruff!• He was a stout man with a bald crown round which a ruff of brown hair grew thickly.• No Elizabethan dandy ever sported a finer ruff.• Seven ruff, without as yet their elaborate courtship adornments, fed at the northern tip of a tyke.• These actions cause the eye, beak and face to vanish beneath the shaggy white ruff.Origin ruff (1500-1600) Probably from → RUFFLE1ruff nounChinese white stiff 16th the circular a in collar, worn Corpus century |