rusche

rusche

1. alternative form of risshe

Inherited from Old French rusche.

rusche f (plural rusches)

1. beehive
   • 1600, Olivier de Serres, Le Théâtre d'Agriculture et Mesnage des Champs, 1996 ed., Paris: Actes Sud, 631, →ISBN

     Les bancs pour asseoir les rusches, seront artistement bastis, à ce qu'elles y reposent seurement.

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• ruscher

• French: ruche

• abeille

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin rusca (“bark”), borrowed from Gaulish rūsca, from Proto-Celtic *rūskos (“bark”), from *rukskos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rewk- (“to dig up”), from *Hrew- (“to tear out, dig out”).

rusche oblique singular, f (oblique plural rusches, nominative singular rusche, nominative plural rusches)

1. beehive

• Middle French: rusche
• Norman: ruche