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Frill vs Ruche - What's the difference?

frill | ruche |

As nouns the difference between frill and ruche

is that frill is a strip of pleated material used as decoration or trim; a ruffle while ruche is a strip of fabric used for trimming.

As a verb frill

is to make something into a frill.

frill

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A strip of pleated material used as decoration or trim; a ruffle.
  • (photography) A wrinkled edge to a film.
  • A luxury.
  • Something extraneous added for effect.
  • *
    • Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […]  Frills , ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.

    See also

    * jabot

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make something into a frill.
  • To become wrinkled.
  • To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back in crimped plaits.
    • to frill a cap
  • To shake or shiver as with cold.
    • The hawk frills .
    (Johnson)

    Derived terms

    * frilly * no frills * turkey frills

    ruche

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A strip of fabric used for trimming.
  • A pile of arched tiles, used to catch and retain oyster spawn.
    • (Webster 1913) ----