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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—R

Ruffe

(1 syl.). A game at cards, now called slamm; also playing a trump, when one cannot follow suit.

“A swaggerer is one that plays at ruffre, from whence he took the denomination of ruffyn.”

J. H. (Gent.) Satirical Epigrams, 1619.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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