ruche
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ruche
- /ɹuːʃ/
Rhymes with -uːʃ
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French ruche, from Middle French rusche, from Old French rusche, from Early Medieval Latin rusca (“bark”), borrowed from Gaulish rūsca, from Proto-Celtic *rūskos (“bark”), from *rukskos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rewk- (“to dig up”), from *Hrew- (“to tear out, dig out”).
noun ruches
- A strip of fabric which has been fluted or pleated.
- A small ruff of fluted or pleated fabric worn at neck or wrist. Mrs. Newsome wore at operatic hours a black silk dress—very handsome, he knew it was "handsome"—and an ornament that his memory was able further to identify as a ruche.
- A pile of arched tiles, used to catch and retain oyster spawn.
verb ruches · ruching · ruched
- To flute or pleat (fabric). ruched curtains
- To bunch up (fabric); to ruck up. Joe Baxter pulled the dress farther down, so it was ruched around my middle, the bottom half pulled up to my stomach.
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noun fluted or pleated fabric
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title = {ruche},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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