ruche
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ɹuːʃ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -uːʃ
Noun
[edit]ruche (plural ruches)
- A strip of fabric which has been fluted or pleated.
- A small ruff of fluted or pleated fabric worn at neck or wrist.
- 1903, Henry James, The Ambassadors[1]:
- 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.
Derived terms
[edit]- ruching (noun)
Translations
[edit]Verb
[edit]ruche (third-person singular simple present ruches, present participle ruching, simple past and past participle ruched)
- 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.
- 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.
See also
[edit]Bourbonnais-Berrichon
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]ruche f
Central Franconian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German rūchen, from Old High German *rūhhan, northern variant of riohhan.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]ruche (third-person singular present rüch, past tense roch, past participle jeroche)
- (Ripuarian, transitive or intransitive) to smell
French
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Etymology
[edit]Inherited 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.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ruche f (plural ruches)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]ruche on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
- “ruche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]ruche f (invariable)
Middle English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]ruche
- Alternative form of riche (“rich”)
Norman
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French rusche, from Early Medieval Latin rusca (“bark”), from Gaulish *ruskā, from Proto-Celtic *rūsklos (“bark”). Compare Breton rusk, Irish rúsc, Welsh rhisgl and Catalan rusc.
Noun
[edit]ruche f (plural ruches)
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