1635 J. Reynolds (new ed.) iv. xvi. 323 He came to the scaffold..in a sute of blacke Taffeta, a gowne of blacke wrought tuffe Taffeta, and a great white set ruffe.
1889 A. Conan Doyle xxviii. 296 The pile of bodies..with their twisted limbs and white-set faces.
1950 F. M. Ford 403 The breath was short between her white set teeth.