ruche
[roosh]
noun
a strip of pleated lace, net, muslin, or other material for trimming or finishing a dress, as at the collar or sleeves.
RELATED WORDS
pleat, curl, crimp, knit, bend, tuck, gather, ruffle, crease, plait, flounce, flute, kilt, layer, convolution, corrugation, cockle, gathering, ridge, overlap
Origin of ruche
1820–30; < French: literally, beehive < Gallo-Romance *rūsca bark, apparently < Gaulish; compare Welsh rhisg(l) bark, rind
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Historical Examples of ruche
There was not a flower or ruche or frill or furbelow or bow about her dress of which he did not make a mental inventory.
Mortomley's Estate, Vol. II (of 3)Charlotte Elizabeth Lawson Cowan Riddell
The opening is rounded; the edge is trimmed with a ruche, like the body.
A ruche of moss roses at the hem of the skirt and on the bodice.
The Evolution of FashionFlorence Mary Gardiner
Trim the basket with a ruche of double box pleats, ornamented with glass beads and with bows of brown silk ribbon.
Beeton's Book of NeedleworkIsabella Beeton
There was a frilling, or ruche, or tucker, about the throat that I think had been sewn into it three weeks before.
A Book of GhostsSabine Baring-Gould
ruche
rouche
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Word Origin for ruche
C19: from French, literally: beehive, from Medieval Latin rūsca bark of a tree, of Celtic origin
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