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Ruffler   Listen
noun
Ruffler  n.  
1.
One who ruffles; a swaggerer; a bully; a ruffian. "Assaults, if not murders, done at his own doors by that crew of rufflers."
2.
That which ruffles; specifically, a sewing machine attachment for making ruffles.





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"Ruffler" Quotes from Famous Books



... predestination. All was quiet and sober then, I promise you, and you might have walked from Westminster to the Tower in the dead of the night without hearing aught save the murmur of prayer and the chanting of hymns. Not a ruffler or a wench was in the streets after dark, nor any one save staid citizens upon their business, or the halberdiers of the watch. The second visit which I made was over this business of the levelling of the ramparts, ...
— Micah Clarke - His Statement as made to his three Grandchildren Joseph, - Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 • Arthur Conan Doyle


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