riches

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In the same case is the statuette itself; the ruches of her dress are rendered via deep, uneven gashes, an early taste of his assumed savagery.

From New York Times • Aug. 9, 2017

To make one costume seem like many, women are buying in vast quantities dickies, jabots, fichus, gilets, ruches, berthas, bibs, piccadillies, collets, modesties and ruffs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Corsage a la Louis XV., trimmed with ruches to match.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by

It was something somehow in the ruches—the ruches and the little peaks of neck.

From Pointed Roofs Pilgrimage, Volume 1 by Richardson, Dorothy Miller

Mrs. Bett was in best black and ruches, and she seized upon Monona and patted her, as her own form of social expression; and Monona wriggled like a puppy, as hers.

From Miss Lulu Bett by Gale, Zona