Next, I saw our dog spring backwards from la ruche!.    From Wordnik.com.  [enflure - French Word-A-Day] Reference

A crape bonnet should be worn, and a very small white ruche may be added if desired.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Good Manners; a Guide to Polite Usage for All Social Functions] Reference

A ruche of white is now placed just inside the bonnet, which relieves the black effect somewhat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Etiquette of To-day] Reference

An old lady with a thin, pipe-stem neck should adopt a full ruche and fluffy, soft collar-bands.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Dress Makes of Us] Reference

"Meda" made a ruche for grandma, crocheted lace, and speculated in butter, gaining in all 66 cents.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 05, May, 1889] Reference

In some lonely hamlets the unmarried women wear black caps with a thick ruche of ostrich feathers or black fur round the face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dutch Life in Town and Country] Reference

A deep flounce of gauffred real lace goes round the neck, while round the face there is a ruche or frill, also very finely gauffred.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dutch Life in Town and Country] Reference

You sew in this ruche; you got time before the supper-bell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It] Reference

The situation, like the ruche, though startling at first, had remained as unaltered.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Simpkinsville : character tales,] Reference

I was dressed in a white muslin gown, a plain skirt with a wide ruche around the bottom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marie Bashkirtseff (From Childhood to Girlhood)] Reference

A ruche trimmed with beads and bows of brown silk ribbon form the trimming of the basket.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beeton's Book of Needlework] Reference

Materials: Deal box; satin ruche; satin ribbon; quilted satin and silk cord; guipure netting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beeton's Book of Needlework] Reference

When cold, glaze it, and put a paper ruche round the root, and garnish with tufts of parsley.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Household Management] Reference

Place a paper ruche on the bone, and send red-currant jelly and gravy in a tureen to table with it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Household Management] Reference

It should be sent to table on a napkin, or garnished with a piece of deep white paper with a ruche at the top.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Household Management] Reference

Trim the basket with a ruche of double box pleats, ornamented with glass beads and with bows of brown silk ribbon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beeton's Book of Needlework] Reference

He wore loose black trousers ornamented at the bottom with a ruche of lace, and a large white collar round his neck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Robert-Houdin]

When cold, glaze it, put a paper ruche round the root, which is generally very unsightly, and garnish with tufts of parsley.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Household Management] Reference

The slipper is trimmed all round with a ruche of green silk ribbon three-fifths of an inch wide, pleated in double box pleats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beeton's Book of Needlework] Reference

It gave back their green again to the aspidistras that, rising from a ruche of pink paper, formed the central ornament of the table.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Divine Fire] Reference

When the netting has been fastened on, it is edged all round with a green satin ruche, and green silk cord, forming loops at every corner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beeton's Book of Needlework] Reference

I love the geranium nose of ruche.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Italian Native from Monferrato] Reference

I'm leaning towards a ruche of some sort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-04-01] Reference

Basically, it's about this kid, named Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruche-pip peri pembo (Seriously.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Imperfect Blog] Reference

En leur ruche elles amassent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Du Printemps] Reference

L’humble ruche adossée au mur.    From Wordnik.com.  [La Vigne et la Maison] Reference

In a few days, the ruche was depopulated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals] Reference

Under the brim was a white WIDOW'S ruche.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home] Reference

La cage sans oiseaux, la ruche sans abeilles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference

Strapless black dress with ruche detail.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Women Stalk] Reference

Delhi est une ruche qui ne s'arrête jamais.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Dark Age Is Dawning] Reference