# ruche
## English
### Etymology

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

* IPA: /ɹuːʃ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -uːʃ

### Noun

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: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

* ruching (noun)

#### Translations
### Verb

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

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

## Bourbonnais-Berrichon
### Alternative forms

* rutse, reuche (Berrichon), ruiche (Berrichon)

### Noun

ruche f
* robin

## Central Franconian
### Alternative forms

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

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʀuxə/

### Verb

ruche (third-person singular present rüch, past tense roch, past participle jeroche)
* (Ripuarian, transitive or intransitive) to smell

## French
### Etymology

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

* IPA: /ʁyʃ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

ruche f (plural ruches)
* hive, beehive
* (textiles, fashion) ruffle; flounce; ruche

#### Derived terms

* rucher
* rucheur

#### Descendants

* → English: ruche
* → German: Rüsche
* → Italian: ruche
* → Polish: riusza

### Further reading

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

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French ruche.

### Noun

ruche f (invariable)
* ruche

## Middle English
### Adjective

ruche
* Alternative form of riche (“rich”)

## Norman
### Etymology

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

ruche f (plural ruches)
* (Jersey) frill