'ruff' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is used as a noun to describe a ruffled fabric or frilled collar, as a verb to describe the act of ruffling fabric, or as an adjective meaning rough or rugged. For example: "She wore a white blouse with a delicate ruff around the collar." "The wind ruffed the leaves on the trees." "The terrain was ruff and difficult to traverse."
Who knows, it might just do for now, or at least it might do better than lying around looking like a sad, gangly lion being forced to sit down to tea with a ruff around its neck.
What this means is that a truly fascinating picture by Rubens – his fantastical, ingenious portrait of Marchesa aria Grimaldi, and her Dwarf (c 1606) in which a ruff collar takes on the proportions and complexity of the Milky Way and the beautiful Grimaldi is closely accompanied by her jowly retainer – is shown among a host of lesser works.
One of them is wearing a fur hat, a ruff around her neck and a dotted veil that echoes a similar accoutrement elsewhere in the work.
"His turned down shirt-collar disclosed a sinewy muscular yellow neck, and above that, nestling in a great black mass of hair, bristling and compact like a ruff of mourning pins, rose the strange quaint face and head, covered with its thatch of wild republican hair, of President Lincoln".
Wouldn't it be great if Paris Hilton sported a giant ruff instead of a Louis Vuitton handbag?
Women wanted to show their status in society and also wished to expose the bosom, so the ruff developed as a half circle open in front and rising in back.
Six to nine subspecies are usually recognized; they differ in the colour and size of the winter neck-ruff of males, as well as in the colour of their saddle patches and in their horn shape.
'Mars is No Fun' is actually terrific fun; 'Cats and Dogs', in which she makes the audience 'miaow-miaow' and 'ruff-ruff' along, is daft but joyous.
Then the White House counsel, Charles Ruff, picked through the alleged instances of obstruction of justice, arguing that the evidence was frail.
Cross-examined by Republicans on the Judiciary Committee, Mr Ruff conceded that reasonable people might think the president's testimony not just misleading but outright false.
Despite his preference for working in colour, Gursky's flat, dispassionate documentary style placed him squarely within the Düsseldorf school of photography, alongside Thomas Ruff, Candida Höfer, and Thomas Struth, all of whom studied under the Bechers.
