Dictionary Definition
ruffled adj
1 shaken into waves or undulations as by wind;
"the rippled surface of the pond"; "with ruffled flags flying"
[syn: rippled]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
- Having ruffles.
Verb
ruffled- past of ruffle
Extensive Definition
In sewing and dressmaking, a ruffle,
frill, or furbelow is a strip of fabric, lace or ribbon tightly gathered
or pleated on one edge and
applied to a garment,
bedding, curtain or other textile as a
form of trimming. A
ruffle without gathers or pleats may also be made by cutting a
curved strip of fabric and applying the inner or shorter edge to
the garment.
A deep (wide) ruffle is usually called a flounce
(earlier frounce or fronce).
Ruffles appeared at the draw-string necklines of
full chemises in the
15th
century, evolved into the separately-constructed ruff of
the 16th
century, and remained a fashionable form of trim off-and-on
into modern times.
Notes
References
- Picken, Mary Brooks: The Fashion Dictionary, Funk and Wagnalls, 1957. (1973 edition ISBN 0-3081-0052-2)
- Arnold, Janet: Patterns of Fashion: the cut and construction of clothes for men and women 1560-1620, Macmillan 1985. Revised edition 1986. (ISBN 0-8967-6083-9)
- Baumgarten, Linda: What Clothes Reveal: The Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal America, Yale University Press,2002. ISBN 0-3000-9580-5
- Tozer, Jane and Sarah Levitt, Fabric of Society: A Century of People and their Clothes 1770-1870, Laura Ashley Press, ISBN 0-9508-9130-4
ruffled in Japanese: フリル