Crossword-Solution: RUFFLES 7 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

They don’t put ruffles on a shirt to keep a person warm, do they?” “Course they don’t.” “But they put them _on_, don’t they?” “Yes.” “All right, then; that letter I wrote is a shirt, and the welkin’s the ruffle on it.” I judged that that would gravel Jim, and it did.

Tears fell from every window and gallery; they hissed upon the hot saucepans of the cooks; they moistened the oats in the manger; they took the starch out of the ladies' ruffles, and weakened the wine in the goblets of the guests.

There was the Knight of the Green Valley, in green and gold, a green hat with a long white plume, lace ruffles at his sleeves, and buckles on dancing-pumps; a bonny fat knight of Maxwelton Braes, in Highland kilts and a plaid; and the Knight at Large.

And with him was La Salle, straight, and slim, and elegant, and surely wearing ruffles and plumes and sword even in a canoe.

Philip looked again at the series of portraits of Spanish gentlemen, with ruffles and pointed beards, their faces pale against the sober black of their clothes and the darkness of the background.