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Rugate

Rugate \Ru"gate\, a. [L. rugatus, p. p. of rugare to wrinkle, fr. ruga a wrinkle.] Having alternate ridges and depressions; wrinkled.
--Dana.

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rugate

a. Having alternate ridges and depressions; wrinkled.

Usage examples of "rugate".

Watching the folk eat and drink, Cugel was unfavorably reminded of the fare which had sustained him across the Pale Rugates, and he gave no further thought to his terces.

The one-story structures were built of cinder block and had roofs of cor rugated steel.

Cor rugated earth, the nomes called it, after the corru gated cardboard you sometimes got in the packing department in the Store.