ramage
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See also: Ramage
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French ramage, from Middle French and Old French ramage, from ram (“branch”) + -age. by surface analysis, rame + -age.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]ramage
Noun
[edit]ramage (plural ramages)
- (anthropology) A cognatic descent group.
- 1993, Geoffroy Benjamin, “Temiar”, in edited by Paul Hockings, Encyclopedia of World Cultures, volumes V: East and Southeast Asia, New York: G.K. Hall & Co., pages 265–273:
- Ramages as such do not enter into alliances, either marital or political. They do, however, provide a basis for the allocation of political authority […]
- (archaic) Boughs or branches.
- 1855, Philip James Bailey, The Mystic:
- That beneficent stem […]
From leaf and ramage sheddeth cool bright showers.
- (archaic) The warbling of birds in trees.
- 1616, William Drummond of Hawthornden, “Sonnet”, in Poems: Amorous, Funerall, Divine, Pastorall: in Sonnets, Songs, Sextains:
- And birds on thee their ramage did bestow
References
[edit]- “ramage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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