Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to ruche
Participle: ruched
Gerund: ruching
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | ruche |
| you | ruche |
| he;she;it | ruches |
| we | ruche |
| you | ruche |
| they | ruche |
Perfect
| I | have ruched |
| you | have ruched |
| he;she;it | has ruched |
| we | have ruched |
| you | have ruched |
| they | have ruched |
Past
| I | ruched |
| you | ruched |
| he;she;it | ruched |
| we | ruched |
| you | ruched |
| they | ruched |
Pluperfect
| I | had ruched |
| you | had ruched |
| he;she;it | had ruched |
| we | had ruched |
| you | had ruched |
| they | had ruched |
Future
| I | will ruche |
| you | will ruche |
| he;she;it | will ruche |
| we | will ruche |
| you | will ruche |
| they | will ruche |
Future Perfect
| I | will have ruched |
| you | will have ruched |
| he;she;it | will have ruched |
| we | will have ruched |
| you | will have ruched |
| they | will have ruched |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | ruche |
| you | ruche |
| he;she;it | ruche |
| we | ruche |
| you | ruche |
| they | ruche |
Perfect
| I | have ruched |
| you | have ruched |
| he;she;it | have ruched |
| we | have ruched |
| you | have ruched |
| they | have ruched |
Imperfect
| I | ruched |
| you | ruched |
| he;she;it | ruched |
| we | ruched |
| you | ruched |
| they | ruched |
Pluperfect
| I | had ruched |
| you | had ruched |
| he;she;it | had ruched |
| we | had ruched |
| you | had ruched |
| they | had ruched |
Conditional
Present
| I | would ruche |
| you | would ruche |
| he;she;it | would ruche |
| we | would ruche |
| you | would ruche |
| they | would ruche |
Perfect
| I | would have ruched |
| you | would have ruched |
| he;she;it | would have ruched |
| we | would have ruched |
| you | would have ruched |
| they | would have ruched |
Imperative
| you | ruche |
| we | Let's ruche |
| you | ruche |
Verbs conjugated like 'ruche'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'ruche'
ache,
bouche,
broche,
cache,
crache,
douche,
eche,
euchre,
grucche,
louche,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *Hrew-der.
3. Proto-Indo-European *h₃rewk-
4. Proto-Celtic *rukskos
5. Proto-Celtic *rūskos
6. Gaulish rūscabor.
7. Early Medieval Latin rusca
8. Old French rusche
9. Middle French rusche
10. French ruchebor.
11. English ruche
12. 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”).
Sample Sentences
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ruched curtains
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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. [1864, Frank Leslie's Lady's Magazine:]
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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, ... [1899, The Country Gentleman, page 337:]
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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. [1984, Natalie Rothstein, Madeleine Ginsburg, Avril Hart, Four hundred years of fashion, page 138:]
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Joe Baxter pulled the dress farther down, so it was ruched around my middle, the bottom half pulled up to my stomach. [2014, Harriet Evans, Not Without You, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 47:]
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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. [2017, Laura Trentham, An Indecent Invitation: Spies and Lovers Book 1, Laura Huskins, →ISBN:]
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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. [2018, Raquel Byrnes, Tremblers, Pelican Ventures Book Group, →ISBN:]