Ruffle vs Ornament - What's the difference?
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Any gathered or curled strip of fabric added as trim or decoration.(w)
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Disturbance; agitation; commotion.
(military) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruff.
(zoology) The connected series of large egg capsules, or oothecae, of several species of American marine gastropods of the genus Fulgur .
To make a ruffle in; to curl or flute, as an edge of fabric.
To disturb; especially, to cause to flutter.
* I. Taylor
* Sir W. Hamilton
* Dryden
* Tennyson
To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.
* Shakespeare
To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.
* Dryden
To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.
* Francis Bacon
* Sir Walter Scott
To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
To erect in a ruff, as feathers.
* Tennyson
(military) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
To throw together in a disorderly manner.
* Chapman
(senseid) An element of decoration; that which embellishes or adorns.
* Tennyson
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(music) A musical flourish that is unnecessary to the overall melodic or harmonic line, but serves to decorate or "ornament" that line.
(senseid) To decorate.
(senseid) To add to.
Ruffle is a related term of ornament.
As a verb ruffle
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English
Noun
(en noun)- ''She loved the dress with the lace ruffle at the hem.
- Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles , flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
- to put the mind in a ruffle
Synonyms
* (strip of fabric) frill, furbelowVerb
(ruffl)- Ruffle the end of the cuff.
- The wind ruffled the papers.
- Her sudden volley of insults ruffled his composure.
- the fantastic revelries that so often ruffled the placid bosom of the Nile
- These ruffle the tranquillity of the mind.
- She smoothed the ruffled seas.
- But, ever after, the small violence done / Rankled in him and ruffled all his heart.
- The night comes on, and the bleak winds / Do sorely ruffle .
- On his right shoulder his thick mane reclined, / Ruffles at speed, and dances in the wind.
- They would ruffle with jurors.
- gallants who ruffled in silk and embroidery
- [The swan] ruffles her pure cold plume.
- I ruffled up fallen leaves in heap.
Derived terms
* rufflyornament
English
Noun
(en noun)- Like that long-buried body of the king / Found lying with his urns and ornaments .
- I'm a bit short on brain myself; the old bean would appear to have been constructed more for ornament than for use.
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Verb
(en verb)- We will ornament the windows with trim to make the room seem brighter.
- The editor ornamented his plain writing, making it fancier but less clear.
