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ruffe
/ rʌf /
noun
- a European freshwater teleost fish, Acerina cernua , having a single spiny dorsal fin: family Percidae (perches) Also calledpope
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Word History and Origins
Origin of ruffe1
C15: perhaps an alteration of rough (referring to its scales)
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Example Sentences
Another time, bringing him roses on his shooes, he asked, If they would make him a ruffe-footed dove?
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The female is called a Reeve without any ruffe about the neck, lesser then the other and hardly to bee got.
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The ruffe or pope (Acerina vulgaris) is a little fish common in the Thames and many other slow-flowing English rivers.
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Why then he is ruffe low, a ruffian, a bold adventurous errand to do any rough service for his Lady.
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The female is called a Reeve without any ruffe about the neck, lesser then the other & hardly to bee got.
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