What is "ruched"

Usage examples of "ruched".

Seria Mau was looking at a blank interior wall covered with ruched oyster silk.

At this, the ruched silk background was replaced by a group of three arched windows opening on to the magisterial glare of the Kefahuchi Tract.

Against a background of ruched oyster satin stood a piece of stiff white card, on which was reproduced the crude and lively drawing of a man in black top hat and tails, caught preparing to light an oval Turkish cigarette.

He would tip back his hat with the end of his ebony cane and fade slowly into nothing while the Kefahuchi Tract slithered across the ruched satin void behind him like a cheap Victorian necklace and the streetlight flashed ting!

Seria Mau was looking at a picture of a blank interior wall covered with ruched grey silk.

Tract seemed to frame itself in three tall arched windows, set into a wall covered in ruched grey satin.

Instead of the clinging bias-cut dresses she usually wore she had this latest fashion: double-tier full skirt with ruched bodice, low straight neckline and halter strap.

The primrose comforter with its ruched ruffle all around the hem was still on the bed.

Beyond the ruched pink silk blinds she could see a terrace with bright white rococo garden chairs.

Rhys Michael, his tunic ruched up bare legs nearly to his waist, looking as shocked and frightened as Javan had ever seen him.

The bodice ended just below the waist, and below that was a skirt, smooth and straight in the front, then yards of fabric pulled to the back in a heavily ruched train that would extend three feet behind the wearer.

The ruched bodice was fitted with a heart shaped neckline and a waistline that dropped slightly below her natural waist to end at a point just above her navel.

He was so kind and holy and often and often she thought and thought could she work a ruched teacosy with embroidered floral design for him as a present or a clock but they had a clock she noticed on the mantelpiece white and gold with a canarybird that came out of a little house to tell the time the day she went there about the flowers for the forty hours' adoration because it was hard to know what sort of a present to give or perhaps an album of illuminated views of Dublin or some place.

Her breasts, under the ruched bodice of her long dress, looked as graspingly enticing as ever.

She looked splendid in her toothpaste-tube ruched and pleated kelly green dress, her golden hair shining in the glow of the police spotlights like a goddess's helmet.