Usually means: Gathered fabric or ribbon strip.
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  1. ruche: Merriam-Webster
  2. ruche: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ruche: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ruche: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Ruche, ruche: Wordnik
  6. ruche: Wiktionary
  7. ruche: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. ruche: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. ruche: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Ruche, ruche: Dictionary.com
  11. Ruche: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Ruche: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. ruche: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Ruche, ruche (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. ruche: FreeDictionary.org
  16. ruche: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. ruche: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See ruched as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (ruche)

noun:  A strip of fabric which has been fluted or pleated.
noun:  A small ruff of fluted or pleated fabric worn at neck or wrist.
noun:  A pile of arched tiles, used to catch and retain oyster spawn.
verb:  To flute or pleat (fabric).
verb:  To bunch up (fabric); to ruck up.

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