Random Word Post – ruche

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I find a random word by flipping through my 2003 The New Webster’s Concise Dictionary and write a quick – often silly – little post about it. # “A pleated or gathered strip of fine fabric, worn about the neck or wrists of a woman’s costume.” It apparently comes from the French form of the Medieval Latin rusca, or “tree bark.” Yes, because when I see something frilly around a woman’s wrist I immediately think of trees. Huh? I almost said something along the lines of, I’m glad I’m a guy and can just wear a t-shirt, but it wasn’t that long ago, historically speaking, when men wore frilly stuff around their necks and wrists. Fashion is weird.