Ruff
[rʌf]Meaning
English word for a frilled collar, and a wading bird, Calidris pugnax
Background Story
Ruff is an English surname. The word also denotes a circular frill or ruffle on a garment, especially the starched, fluted frill at the neck worn in Elizabethan and Jacobean England, and a medium-sized wading bird of the species Calidris pugnax.
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