1. (Textiel) Désigne des ornements d'étoffe plissés en bouillon.
... et, entre chaque motif, entre chaque phrase colorée de l'étalage, courait un accompagnement discret, un léger cordon bouillonné de foulard crème.
(Émile Zola, Au Bonheur des Dames, 1883)
2. (Habillement) Sorte d'ornements d'étoffe plissés en bouillon.
Si le corsage est garni de bouillonnés, on emploiera le coq pour repasser ceux-ci.
(Blanchissage et repassage, dans l'Album de la Minerve : journal de la famille, Montréal, 25 mai 1873, vol.2, n°21, p.342)
[?] et, entre chaque motif, entre chaque phrase colorée de l'étalage, courait un accompagnement discret, un léger cordon bouillonné de foulard crème.
(Émile Zola, Au Bonheur des Dames, 1883)
3. [noun] Any gathered or curled strip of fabric added as trim or decoration.W
4. [noun] Disturbance; agitation; commotion.
5. [noun] (military) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruff.
6. [noun] (zoology) The connected series of large egg capsules, or oothecae, of several species of American marine gastropods of the genus Fulgur.
7. [verb] (transitive) To make a ruffle in; to curl or flute, as an edge of fabric.
8. [verb] (transitive) To disturb; especially, to cause to flutter.
9. [verb] (intransitive) To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.
10. [verb] (intransitive) To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.
11. [verb] (intransitive) To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.
12. [verb] To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
13. [verb] To erect in a ruff, as feathers.
14. [verb] (military) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
15. [verb] To throw together in a disorderly manner.
16. [noun] A strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim.
17. [noun] A high tight collar.
18. [noun] A noisy fight.
19. [verb] Stir up (water) so as to form ripples.
20. [verb] Trouble or vex; 'ruffle somebody's composure'.
21. [verb] To walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others; 'He struts around like a rooster in a hen house'.
22. [verb] Discompose; 'This play is going to ruffle some people'; 'She has a way of ruffling feathers among her colleagues'.
23. [verb] Twitch or flutter; 'the paper flicked'.
24. [verb] Mix so as to make a random order or arrangement; 'shuffle the cards'.
25. [verb] Erect or fluff up; 'the bird ruffled its feathers'.
26. [verb] Disturb the smoothness of; 'ruffle the surface of the water'.
27. [verb] Pleat or gather into a ruffle; 'ruffle the curtain fabric'.
