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Ruffs in a sentence

• Some ruffs are thus chosen frequently while others are never selected.1986, Desmond Nethersole-Thompson, Maimie Nethersole-Thompson, “New or Returning Waders”, in Waders: Their Breeding, Haunts and Watchers...
• West ruffs the third diamond and the defenders cash their two clubs for down one.2010, David Stevens, Wait-A-Minute Bridge, →ISBN, page 96. From the entry wait a minute
• I liked the pale milk-chocolaty ones with the dark iridescent rippling ruffs.1943, Vincent McHugh, “Wednesday: 18th February”, in I Am Thinking of My Darling: An Adventure Story, 3rd printing, New York, N.Y.: Simon…. From the entry milk-chocolaty
• Faeders, male ruffs that mimic females in plumage and "sneak" copulations at leks, secrete monoesters like other males.2007, Jeroen Willem Hendrik Reneerkens, Functional aspects of seasonal variation in preen wax composition of sandpipers (Scolopacidae)…. From the entry faeder
• Here, we describe a rare female-like morph of ruffs: the ‘missing’ third alternative mating strategy, which we have called ‘faeder’.2006 June 22, Joop Jukema, “Permanent female mimics in a lekking shorebird”, in Biology Letters. From the entry faeder

Meaning of ruff

1. noun A circular frill or ruffle on a garment, especially a starched, fluted frill at the neck in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (1560s–1620s).
2. noun Anything formed with plaits or flutings like a frill.
3. noun A gregarious, medium-sized wading bird of species Calidris pugnax (syn. Philomachus pugnax), of Eurasia; specifically, a male of the species which develops a distinctive ruff of feathers and ear tufts during mating season (the female is called a reeve).

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Questions about the plural of ruff

What is the plural of ruff?

The plural of ruff is ruffs.

Is ruff countable?

Ruff is a countable noun.