ramage
nounEtymology Borrowed from French ramage, from Middle French and Old French ramage, from ram (“branch”) + -age. by surface analysis, rame + -age.
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wildness, spirit, courage, ferocity
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Anthropology, Human sciences, Sciences A cognatic descent group.
- Ramages as such do not enter into alliances, either marital or political. They do, however, provide a basis for the allocation of political authority[…]1993, Geoffroy Benjamin, “Temiar”, in Paul Hockings, editor, Encyclopedia of World Cultures, volumes V: East and Southeast Asia, New York: G.K. Hall & Co., pages 265–273:
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Archaic Boughs or branches.
- That beneficent stem[…] From leaf and ramage sheddeth cool bright showers.1855, Philip James Bailey, The Mystic:
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Archaic The warbling of birds in trees.
- And birds on thee their ramage did bestow1616, William Drummond of Hawthornden, “Sonnet”, in Poems: Amorous, Funerall, Divine, Pastorall: in Sonnets, Songs, Sextains: