ramage
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See also: Ramage
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French, from Latin ramus (“a branch”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
ramage
Noun[edit]
ramage
- Boughs or branches.
- 1855, Philip James Bailey, The Mystic:
- That beneficent stem […]
From leaf and ramage sheddeth cool bright showers.
- 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
- 1616, William Drummond of Hawthornden, "Sonnet", in Poems: Amorous, Funerall, Divine, Pastorall: in Sonnets, Songs, Sextains
References[edit]
- “ramage” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.