A ruffle or frill around the sleeve of a garment at the wrist. Now rare.

A frill, ruff, or ornamental pleating; esp. the frill down the breast of a shirt. Obsolete.

A ruffle around the sleeve of a garment at the wrist; = ruff, n.3 1a.

Lace, esp. with a scalloped edge. (In quot. 1591: a lace ruff). Cf. picot, n. Now Scottish.

‘A kind of small ruffle’ (Halliwell).

As an article of dress or personal adornment. A decorative ruffle or trimming of lace or other light material, feathers, etc., which hangs down…

A strip of lace or other material, gathered along one edge to make an ornamental frill, esp. for the wrist, breast, or neck of a garment; (also) a…

A piece of stuff pleated and puckered on a gown or petticoat; a flounce; the pleated border of a petticoat or gown. Now often in plural as a…

‘An ornamental appendage to the skirt of a lady's dress, consisting of a strip gathered and sewed on by its upper edge around the skirt, and left…

elliptical. A variety of lace originally manufactured at Valenciennes; a ruffle or the like made of this.

A frill or pleat of fabric used to trim a garment or soft furnishing; a ruffle.

Trimming consisting of a ruche or ruches; a piece of this, a ruche; (also now chiefly) a gathered area on a garment. Also figurative.

A flounce or frill.

concrete. A flounce; also, the material of which flounces are made.

(See quot. 1882.)

transferred and figurative. A loose wavy fall or ruffle of lace, etc.

The action of goffer, v.; also, the result of this; goffered lace, frills, etc.

Each of a number of successively overlapping ruffles or flounces on a garment.