noun
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material used for a ruche
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a ruche or ruches collectively
Etymology
Origin of ruching
Example Sentences
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Think: a jersey dress with knotted ruching in an unexpected shade of green, or leather mules with an inverted heel that makes you look twice.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
Designers featured frills, fabric layers and ruching in a variety of colours and styles, meaning you could easily re-fashion your own items to reflect the mismatched clothes on display here.
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2025
The ruching, this time around, is in the right places.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 7, 2023
Loose, oversized proportions in skirts and pants, and ubiquitous ruching and ruffles endowed this show with a light, floaty feel.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 29, 2021
But she had reckoned without a loose nail in the stair-carpet, which, apparently resenting her hasty progress past it, had torn a yard of filmy ruching off her skirt before she realized what was happening.
From Betty Wales Senior by Warde, Margaret
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