ruche

See also: ruché and rüche

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *Hrew-der.

Proto-Indo-European *h₃rewk-

Proto-Celtic *rukskos

Proto-Celtic *rūskos

Gaulish rūscabor.

Early Medieval Latin rusca

Old French rusche

Middle French rusche

French ruchebor.

English ruche

Borrowed from French ruche, from Middle French rusche, from Old French rusche, from Early Medieval Latin rusca (“bark”), borrowed from Gaulish rūsca, from Proto-Celtic *rūskos (“bark”), from *rukskos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rewk- (“to dig up”), from *Hrew- (“to tear out, dig out”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹuːʃ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -uːʃ

Noun

ruche (plural ruches)

Sense 1

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 September 28, Henry James, The Ambassadors, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC:

     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.

Derived terms

• ruching (noun)

Translations

fluted or pleated fabric

• Esperanto: ruŝo
• German: Rüsche (de) f
• Polish: riusza f, riuszka f

Verb

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.

See also

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

Bourbonnais-Berrichon

Alternative forms

• rutse, reuche (Berrichon), ruiche (Berrichon)

Noun

ruche f

1. 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^(key): /ˈʀuxə/

Verb

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

1. (Ripuarian, transitive or intransitive) to smell

French

des ruches (1)

des ruches décoratives (2)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *Hrew-der.

Proto-Indo-European *h₃rewk-

Proto-Celtic *rukskos

Proto-Celtic *rūskos

Gaulish rūscabor.

Early Medieval Latin rusca

Old French rusche

Middle French rusche

French ruche

Inherited from Middle French rusche, from Old French rusche, from Early Medieval Latin rusca (“bark”), borrowed from Gaulish rūsca, from Proto-Celtic *rūskos (“bark”), from *rukskos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rewk- (“to dig up”), from *Hrew- (“to tear out, dig out”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁyʃ/

• Audio:

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Noun

ruche f (plural ruches)

1. hive, beehive
2. (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

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *Hrew-der.

Proto-Indo-European *h₃rewk-

Proto-Celtic *rukskos

Proto-Celtic *rūskos

Gaulish rūscabor.

Early Medieval Latin rusca

Old French rusche

Middle French rusche

French rucheubor.

Italian ruche

Unadapted borrowing from French ruche, from Middle French rusche, from Old French rusche, from Early Medieval Latin rusca (“bark”), borrowed from Gaulish rūsca, from Proto-Celtic *rūskos (“bark”), from *rukskos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rewk- (“to dig up”), from *Hrew- (“to tear out, dig out”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈruʃ/^*
• Rhymes: -uʃ

Noun

ruche f (invariable)

1. ruche

Further reading

• ruche in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Middle English

Adjective

ruche

1. alternative form of riche (“rich”)

Middle High German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈruxːə/

Verb

ruche (alternative form in Upper German)

1. alternative form of rüche

Norman

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *Hrew-der.

Proto-Indo-European *h₃rewk-

Proto-Celtic *rukskos

Proto-Celtic *rūskos

Gaulish rūscabor.

Early Medieval Latin rusca

Old French rusche

Norman ruche

Inherited from Old French rusche, from Early Medieval Latin rusca (“bark”), borrowed from Gaulish rūsca, from Proto-Celtic *rūskos (“bark”), from *rukskos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rewk- (“to dig up”), from *Hrew- (“to tear out, dig out”).

Noun

ruche f (plural ruches)

1. (Jersey) frill