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ruffless en · ADJ

Etymology

From ruff + -less.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Without a ruff.
    • […] the opinion, therefore, that those ruffless males are birds of a very late brood of the preceding season, is a reasonable conjecture. 1831, George Montagu, Ornithological Dictionary of British Birds, page 446: