Isn't she a delightful old woman, Star, in her white cap and tremendous white ruff collar?

The engraving shows a man with a tall bald forehead and a long face framed by a ruff collar.

These dainty yellow buttercups sit on a ruff collar of green foliage.

They always make me think of historical pictures I've seen of the first Queen Elizabeth who always wore a high ruff collar.

And she fearlessly replies: "I am wearing a purple and green polka-dotted clown suit, with a big yellow ruff collar and huge white pom-pom buttons."

He wears an Elizabethan ruff collar and a pageboy hairdo, is pompous and self-admiring, and he never likes to get his hands dirty.

Thermo-dump panels formed a ruff collar on the outside of the environmental-engineering deck just below the life-support capsule; communication dishes jutted out of a grid tower on the front of it.

Sometimes sheer exaggeration is the point, as with a tire-size ruff collar by Junya Watanabe at the start of the neck and shoulders section.

Three kilometres away, hundreds of thermo dump panels the size of football fields hung down from the rock, forming a ruff collar right around the asteroid's neck.

Miss Stutz was wearing a dress designed by Mr. Brooks with an 18th-century ruff collar.