Ruchings

"ruchings," and that Fresh has been provided with a quaintly modish copy of the flowered gown of Spring in Botticelli's famous picture; but the mailclad Brynhild still climbs the mountains with her legs carefully hidden in a long white skirt, and looks so exactly like Mrs. Leo Hunter as Minerva that it is quite impossible to feel a ray of illusion whilst looking at her. ❋ George Bernard Shaw (1903)

She returned to the front of the room and went on talking to a lank spinster about ruchings, but Mr. Wrenn felt that he had known her long and as intimately as it was possible to know so clever a young woman. ❋ Unknown (2004)

And then you go and moon over a Swede tailor because he can talk about how to put ruchings on a skirt! ❋ Unknown (2004)

Her rich costume of seal brown, plush with ruchings of feathers, the coquettish hat to match with the jaunty ostrich plume were becoming in the extreme and gave an air of richness and refined elegance. ❋ Rebecca Agatha Armour (N/A)

Marguerite Verne is radiant in pearl-colored satin and ruchings of delicate pink azaleas. ❋ Rebecca Agatha Armour (N/A)

"No, indeed! it is disgusting," replied the other, who was fain to conceal the bony corners of her angular figure with a multiplicity of lace ruchings and puffings. ❋ H. Lovett Cameron (N/A)

I looked at her, dainty and exquisite as ever, her ruchings fresh and white, her very face indicative of decorum and order, her wistful old mouth still rather like a child's, her eyes, always slightly upturned because of her diminutive height, so that she had habitually a look of adoration. ❋ Mary Roberts Rinehart (1917)

Nobody had dreamed even of machine-made ruchings any more than of vehicles that run all over the streets without the aid of horses. ❋ Unknown (1912)

I guessed that Miss Jane's exquisite neatness had been responsible for the white ruchings, the soft caps, and the spotless shoulder shawls which had made lovely their latter years. ❋ Unknown (1910)

My waist was of light puffed blonde, very fluffy, made out of the skirt I wore at Henry's wedding, and trimmed round the neck and sleeves with ruchings edged with narrow black lace. ❋ Unknown (1908)

I put on my pretty flowered merino that had been freshened up with black silk ruchings that completely hid the worn places, and the waist made over with Elizabethan sleeves, so that it looked almost like a new dress, besides being very becoming, as the big sleeves helped out my figure by their fullness. ❋ Unknown (1908)

The golden light struck one half of her high-bred, sensitive face, and glimmered upon her thickly-coiled flaxen hair, striking a pinkish tint from her closely-cut costume of fawn-coloured cloth with its dainty cinnamon ruchings. ❋ Unknown (1894)

Jane then laid aside her pen to find pins, to contrive ruchings, to catch up the loose ends of draperies, while her mother and her sister Alice and her aunt Lydia circled and fluttered and swooped and chattered through a hundred suggestions and amendments and alterations. ❋ Henry Blake Fuller (1893)

From the tiny waist trailed yards of white faille, trimmed with tulle ruchings, frecked as a meadow with faintly-tinted daisies; the hips were engarlanded with daisies, and the flowers melted and bloomed amid snows of faille and tulle. ❋ Unknown (1892)

[Wow]! that was Ruch! ❋ Websters Dictionary (2004)

She was at [the club] with another man and the man went ruching to her [real] [bf]. ❋ Abcdsth (2015)

That dress [needs more] [ruching] around her [tits]! ❋ Mralexgray (2017)

[This one] babe at [the club] was walkin' around with some Ruch Swagg, [if only] the poor guys knew she wasn't really all that. ❋ Ungghhhgotcha (2010)

i [hate] that gormley ruch of a [fooker] ❋ Gjeirmtortuhdye (2004)

I [really] like the Ruch Chorzow [Football] [Club] ❋ Simon Jasniak (2020)