all-be-ruffed

Updated: May 21, 2025

Here is an ancient hall, within four miles, with an old knightly Pantaloon for its lord an all-be-ruffed Dame Barbara for the lady gay a Jesuit, in a butler's habit, to say grace an old tale of Edgehill and Worster fights to relish a cold venison pasty, and a flask of claret mantled with cobwebs a bed for you in the priest's hiding-hole and, for aught I know, pretty Mistress Betty, the dairy-maid, to make it ready."

Sir Walter Scott - Peveril of the Peak