Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See ruche.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun See ruche.

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  • noun Alternative form of ruche.

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Examples

  • A prolonged har-r-r-rouche from Kaluna brought out a man with a female horde behind him, all shuffling into clothes as we approached, and we stiffly dismounted from the wet saddles in which we had sat for ten hours, and stiffly hobbled up into the littered verandah, the water dripping from our clothes, and squeezing out of our boots at every step.

    The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

  • A prolonged har-r-r-rouche from Kaluna brought out a man with a female horde behind him, all shuffling into clothes as we approached, and we stiffly dismounted from the wet saddles in which we had sat for ten hours, and stiffly hobbled up into the littered verandah, the water dripping from our clothes, and squeezing out of our boots at every step.

    The Hawaiian Archipelago 1867

  • They wore black frock coats with chocolate brown rouche.

    News round-up 2009

  • They wore black frock coats with chocolate brown rouche.

    News round-up 2009

  • Julia wore a simple A-line dress by Mr K which was rouched at the waist and beaded along the rouche lines.

    Central Midlands & Coastal Advocate 2008

  • Accord - ingly, after having passed a week at Ca - lais, they set off in their own open ba - rouche drawn by four horses, with the foot - man and the lady's maid on the dicky.

    Temper ; or, Domestic scenes : a tale in three volumes 1812

  • La—la bouche, la rouche, crunchy cheez doodles, la floof LALALALA layla, I’m just a playa

    Y.P.R.: Jay-Z's "Do Re Mi" 2003

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