ruffes

They wears no ruffes at all; The best haue collers set with pearle, which they Rubasca call.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Some prancke their ruffes; and others trimly dight

The Principles of English Versification Paull Franklin Baum

“A _tyre-woman_ of phantastical ornaments, a _sempster_ for ruffes, cuffes, smocks and waistcoats”.

English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846

"In that time," says honest John Stowe, "he was held the greatest gallant that had the _deepest ruff_ and _longest rapier_: the offence to the eye of the one, and hurt unto the life of the subject that came by the other -- this caused her Majestie to _make proclamation against them both_, and to _place selected grave citizens at every gate, to cut the ruffes, and breake the rapiers 'points_ of all passengers that exceeded a yeard in length of their rapiers, and a nayle of a yeard in depth of their ruffes."

Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) Isaac Disraeli 1807

_starch_, and after awhile they made them _ruffes of lawn_, which was at that time a stuff most strange, and wonderfull, and thereupon rose a

Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) Isaac Disraeli 1807

8 Some prancke their ruffes, and others trimly dight

The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser

Henry VIII. had "4 shirte bands of silver with ruffes to the same, whereof one was perled with golde;" and in 1638 Peacham observed, "King Henry VIII. was the first that ever wore a band about his neck, and that very plain, without lace, and about an inch or two in depth.

A Book About Lawyers John Cordy Jeaffreson 1866

"Divers noble personages made them _ruffes, a full quarter of a yeard deepe_, and two lengthe in one ruffe.

Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) Isaac Disraeli 1807