ravenelle
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French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From a feminine form of Old French rafne, ravene, from Latin raphanus, from Ancient Greek ῥάφανος (rháphanos, “radish, cabbage”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ravenelle f (plural ravenelles)
- wallflower, wild radish (plant)
- 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […][1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:
- Elle retrouvait aux mêmes places les digitales et les ravenelles, les bouquets d'orties entourant les gros cailloux, et les plaques de lichen le long des trois fenêtres, dont les volets toujours clos s'égrenaient de pourriture, sur leurs barres de fer rouillées.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
[edit]- “ravenelle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
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