coat-ruffles

Updated: July 19, 2026

Certainly no one would have recognized Verty at the first glance. He was clad in a complete cavalier's suit embroidered coat-ruffles and long flapped waistcoat with knee-breeches, stockings of the same material, and glossy shoes with high red heels, and fluttering rosettes; a cocked hat surmounted his curling hair, and altogether Verty resembled a courtier, and walked like a boy on stilts.

John Esten Cooke - The Last of the Foresters : Or, Humors on the Border; A story of the Old Virginia Frontier