ramage
See also: Ramage
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French ramage, from Middle French and Old French ramage, from ram (“branch”) + -age (“-age”); by surface analysis, rame + -age.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɹæmɪd͡ʒ/
- Rhymes: -æmɪd͡ʒ
Adjective
ramage
- (obsolete) wild; untamed
Noun
ramage (plural ramages)
- (anthropology) A cognatic descent group.
- 1993, Geoffroy Benjamin, “Temiar”, in Paul Hockings, editor, Encyclopedia of World Cultures, volume 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 […]
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- (archaic) Boughs or branches.
- 1855, Philip James Bailey, The Mystic:
- That beneficent stem […]
From leaf and ramage sheddeth cool bright showers.
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- (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
- 1616, William Drummond of Hawthornden, "Sonnet", in Poems: Amorous, Funerall, Divine, Pastorall: in Sonnets, Songs, Sextains
References
- ramage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Anagrams
- Gemara, Megara, megara