ruche

• “Further etymology takes the French word ruche to “beehive,” an allusion to the frills and plaits of a straw hive.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time

• “The ruche goes into the butt crack, so it gives you a bigger-looking ass.”

  The Huffington Post: JWwow In Maxim: Bikini & No Belly Button (PHOTOS)

• “Next, I saw our dog spring backwards from la ruche!”

  enflure - French Word-A-Day

• “Moving over to the right there is a note about a "soft t-shirt with xtra-long sleeves so as to ruche up arms w/tailored men's trousers and cutting-edge blazer of new proportions.”

  Angela's Sketch for the Macy's INC Challenge

• “One day, at the sight of tired circles under her eyes, she ripped from her neck a lovely ruche that she was adjusting and, throwing herself on her bed, cried as though her heart would break.”

  The Titan

• “He had his association indeed with the ruche, but it was rather imperfectly romantic.”

  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.”

  The Ambassadors

• “Thin and youthful looking at first glance, she betrayed her age on Cynthia's second glance, which picked up on the telltale signs of a woman trying too hard the little ruche of flesh at the midsection that seemed to affect almost every middle-aged woman, the sarong knotted at the waist, possibly in hopes of hiding less-than-perfect legs.”

  Every Secret Thing

• “It is plain to be seen that the fluffy ruche at the throat-band, and the ruffle at the shoulder, and the spreading bow at the waist, and the trimmed sleeves, add bulkiness to a form already too generously endowed with flabby rotundity.”

  What Dress Makes of Us

• “An old lady with a thin, pipe-stem neck should adopt a full ruche and fluffy, soft collar-bands.”

  What Dress Makes of Us

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