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rouche

rouche is the alternative form of ruche.

Meaning of ruche

Noun

ruche (plural ruches)

  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.
    • 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.1903 September 28, Henry James, The Ambassadors, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC
  3. A pile of arched tiles, used to catch and retain oyster spawn.

See all 5 meanings of ruche

Forms of rouche

Noun
pluralrouches
Verb
third-person singular presentrouches
present participlerouching
past participlerouched
pastrouched

Questions about rouche

What is rouche the alternative form of?
Rouche is the alternative form of ruche.

Words near rouche in the dictionary

  1. Roubideaux
  2. rouble
  3. roubles
  4. Roucas
  5. Rouch
  6. rouche
  7. rouched
  8. Rouchel
  9. Rouchel Brook
  10. rouches
  11. rouching

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rouche (page history and authors); ruche (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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