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■ noun
1》 a projecting starched frill worn round the neck, characteristic of Elizabethan and Jacobean costume.
2》 a projecting or conspicuously coloured ring of feathers or hair round the neck of a bird or mammal.
3》 a pigeon of a domestic breed with a ~ of feathers.
4》 ( plural same or ~s ) a North Eurasian wading bird, the male of which has a large ~ and ear tufts in the breeding season. [ Philomachus pugnax ; the female is called a reeve .]
Derivatives
~ed adjective
Origin
C16: prob. from a var. of rough .
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~ 2
■ noun
1》 (also tommy ~ ) an edible marine fish of Australian inshore waters. [ Arripis georgianus .]
2》 variant spelling of ~e .
Origin
C19: from ~e .
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~ 3
■ verb (in bridge and whist) play a trump in a trick which was led in a different suit.
↘play a trump on (a card).
■ noun an act of ~ing or opportunity to ~.
Origin
C16 (orig. the name of a card game): from OFr. rouffle (perh. an alt. of Ital. trionfo 'a trump').
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~ 4
■ noun Music one of the basic patterns (rudiments) of drumming, consisting of a single note preceded by either two grace notes played with the other stick or three grace notes played with alternating sticks.
Origin
C17: prob. imitative.