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Definition of Ruched
1. trimmed with a ruche [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ruched
Literary usage of Ruched
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"We'n getten th' hay ruched up." (2) to get close or huddle together as fowls do.
... "They could do nowt wi' him single-bonded, bu' they ruched him.'. ..."
2. A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Chester by Robert Holland (1886)
"We'n getten th' hay ruched up." (2) to get close or huddle together as fowls do.
W. (3) shrivelled and withered, as flowers exposed to the hot sun. ..."
3. The Cyclopaedia of Social Usage: Manners and Customs of the Twentieth Century by Helen Lefferts Roberts (1913)
"A widow, for example, wears a crape-trimmed gown, white-ruched bonnet, and long
veil, for a year. According to the strict etiquette of mourning, ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1848)
"Another Indian, flourishing hie war-club, laid the old man at his feet ; whilst
others dragged the women from the waggons, and others ruched opon the men, ..."
5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1894)
"... thickly covered with a floral design in brown and blue, heavily ruched and
puffed, and enriched with a front breadth of pale green spotted satin. ..."
6. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1899)
"... the Bettys, and Belindas, and Relicta-Lovelys, and all the rest of them, in
their highflying hats and caps, their be-ruched satin pelisses, ..."
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