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Smooth out articles in French about old card game
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unruffle
Word definitions for unruffle in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unruffle \Un*ruf"fle\, v. i. [1st pref. un- + ruffle.] To cease from being ruffled or agitated. --Dryden.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) To remove ruffles from; to make smooth.
Usage examples of unruffle.
Monsorlit was unruffled by these charges and Ferrill only patted my hand.
With a few expert swings of the billiard cue, he knocked the glass from the window beside him, and stepped lightly and unruffled into the darkened garden.
Gareth Swales was leaning nonchalantly against the side of the car, looking as unruffled and calm as ever, his hair neatly combed and the tweed suit as immaculate as if it had just come from his tailor.
Their faces were serene, smooth as unruffled ponds, but their eyes did not blink.
Yet even as he nourished bitter thoughts, He felt a depth of clear serenity, Unruffled in his heart beneath it all.
Servilia, assured that she looked passable if not as unruffled as she had some hours before, took her departure.
Nigidius Figulus because of his knowledge, Cicero soon succumbed to the charm of his nature, unruffled and sweet, humble and sensitive.
Grainger studied his unruffled employer, knowing his calm meant nothing and wondering what to tell him.
Rothgar, unruffled, then summoned servants to bring old mattresses and a musket, and sent a message to the king to invite him to watch the spectacle from a distant balcony, if it so pleased him.
But she kept her secret with a tranquil mind, her sense of honor quite unruffled, for no thought of evil ever disturbed her.
The expression on his face was sober, as unruffled as any husband might wear when looking for ladies in a church, the same, indeed, as if he had been waiting for them in the lobby of a theatre.
Helene, seated near the fire, her lovely face unruffled by any emotion, looked on and listened.
She dreamed of facilitating her fall, that she might see whether she would always retain this unruffled demeanor.
The memories that were being called up before him brought no shadow to his unruffled face.
But this companion of her every-day existence retained on its mighty face a wondrous serenity, unruffled by any emotion, as though it were but a mute witness of the laughter and the tears which the Seine seemed to roll in its flood.