SINCE 1828
ruelle
noun
ru·elle
| \ (ˈ)rü¦el\
plural -s
Definition of ruelle
1
archaic
: the space between a bed and the wall
2
: a morning reception held in their bedrooms by fashionable French ladies of the 17th and 18th centuries
3
: a narrow street or alley
the smaller ruelles were in pitch-darkness— Donald Stokes
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