ruche

Borrowed from French ruche, from Middle French rusche, from Medieval Latin rusca (“bark”), from Gaulish *ruskā, from Proto-Celtic *rūskos (“bark”). Compare Breton rusk, Irish rúsc, Welsh rhisgl and Catalan rusc.

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• Rhymes: -uʃ

ruche (plural ruches)

1. A strip of fabric which has been fluted or pleated.
2. A small ruff of fluted or pleated fabric worn at neck or wrist.
   • 1903, Henry James, The Ambassadors‎:

     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.

3. A pile of arched tiles, used to catch and retain oyster spawn.

• ruching (noun)

ruche (third-person singular simple present ruches, present participle ruching, simple past and past participle ruched)

1. To flute or pleat (fabric).

   ruched curtains

   • 1864, Frank Leslie's Lady's Magazine:

     At each seam the dress opens to a-point over a silk petticoat. The skirt is ruched around the bottom and the openings, between which are bows of ribbon and lace.

   • 1899, The Country Gentleman, page 337:

     This will consist in large part of a half-dozen inexpensive flowered organdies, which she has picked up at various sales for from ten to twenty cents a yard. She has had all of them made with low waists, ruffled or ruched around the corsage, ...

   • 1984, Natalie Rothstein; Madeleine Ginsburg; Avril Hart, Four hundred years of fashion, page 138:

     The matching skirt consists of a drape of pink figured silk, tucked up at the hips to show tiers of machine-made lace frills and pleats […] It is ruched in front and has a train box-pleated into the back.

2. To bunch up (fabric); to ruck up.
   • 2014, Harriet Evans, Not Without You, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 47:

     Joe Baxter pulled the dress farther down, so it was ruched around my middle, the bottom half pulled up to my stomach.

   • 2017, Laura Trentham, An Indecent Invitation: Spies and Lovers Book 1, Laura Huskins, →ISBN:

     A woman with an agonized expression on her up-turned face sat with her knees apart while a man buried his head between her legs. Her dress was ruched around her waist, and her breasts were bared. Gilmore's scandalous, erotic art.

   • 2018, Raquel Byrnes, Tremblers, Pelican Ventures Book Group, →ISBN:

     Clad in a leather bodice and black skirts ruched up past her knees, the wild-haired rescuer pushed a pair of brass goggles up onto her mop of red locks and squinted. “Well, this is a fine mess,” she said.

• ruck (“to crease”)
• rutch (“to slide”)

• reeche, rouche (northern Moselle Franconian)
• rieche (southern Moselle Franconian)

From Middle High German rūchen, from Old High German *rūhhan, northern variant of riohhan.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʀuxə/

ruche (third-person singular present rüch, past tense roch, past participle jeroche)

1. (Ripuarian, transitive or intransitive) to smell

From Middle French rusche, from Medieval Latin rusca (“bark”), from Gaulish *ruskā, from Proto-Celtic *rūskos (“bark”).

Compare Breton rusk, Irish rúsc, Welsh rhisgl and Catalan rusc.

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ruche f (plural ruches)

1. hive, beehive
2. (textiles, fashion) ruffle; flounce; ruche

• rucher
• rucheur

• → English: ruche
• → German: Rüsche
• → Italian: ruche

• ruche on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr
• “ruche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from French ruche, from Middle French rusche, from Medieval Latin rusca (“bark”), from Gaulish *ruskā, from Proto-Celtic *rūskos (“bark”).

Compare Breton rusk, Irish rúsc, Welsh rhisgl and Catalan rusc.

ruche f (invariable)

1. ruche

ruche

1. Alternative form of riche (“rich”)

From Old French rusche, from Medieval Latin rusca (“bark”), from Gaulish *ruskā, from Proto-Celtic *rūsklos (“bark”). Compare Breton rusk, Irish rúsc, Welsh rhisgl and Catalan rusc.

ruche f (plural ruches)

1. (Jersey) frill