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‖ ruelle|ryɛl|
Also 4, 7–8 ruel.
[F. ruelle, dim. of rue street, passage.]
1. The space between a bed and the wall; the part of a bed next the wall.
1393Langl. P. Pl. C. x. 79 Wo in winter-tyme, with wakynge a nyghtes To ryse to þe ruel to rocke þe cradel. 1688Engl. Prot. Mem. to Prince & P'cess of Orange 21 There was a private door within the ruel of the bed into a room. 1751Eliza Heywood Betsy Thoughtless II. 173 Miss Flora had thrown herself on a carpet by the bedside, her head leaning on the ruëlle. 1824tr. Duchesse d'Orleans' Mem. Crt. Louis XIV 273 A number of plates were found in the ruelle of his bed.
2. A bedroom, where ladies of fashion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, especially in France, held a morning reception of persons of distinction; hence, a reception of this kind.
1676G. Etherege Man of Mode iv. ii, I have his own fault, a weak voice, and care not to sing out of a ruelle. 1697Dryden Ded. æneid Ess. (ed. Ker) II. 161 The poet who flourished in the scene is damned in the ruelle. 1704Swift T. Tub ii, No approaching the Ladies Ruelles without the Quota of Shoulder-Knots. 1749Bolingbroke Lett. on Patriotism 221 The forms of a drawing room, the regulation of a ruelle, the decoration of a ball. 1763C. Johnston Reverie II. 16 How can you intrude so rudely into a lady's ruelle? You see I have set out my toilet. 1812Scott Let. in Lockhart (1837) II. xii. 390 Acquainted with all the intrigues and tracasseries of the cabinets and ruelles of foreign courts.
3. In France, a small street; a lane, alley.
1908T. E. Lawrence Let. 9 Aug. (1938) 59 Streets—mostly stairs, irregular and broken, running under arch⁓ways and tunnels... Cover these ruelles with grass, heap them with refuse. 1911O. Onions Widdershins vii. 242 He took us back along a plantain-groved street, and suddenly turned up an alley... It was a dilapidated, deserted ruelle. |