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Definition of Ranees
1. ranee [n] - See also: ranee
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ranees
Literary usage of Ranees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Up the Country: Letters Written to Her Sister from the Upper Provinces of India by Emily Eden (1866)
"Those poor dear ranees whom we visited and thought so beautiful and so merry,
have actually burnt themselves; but I am not going to tell you any more about ..."
2. Thirty-five Years in the East: Adventures, Discoveries, Experiements, and by John Martin Honigberger (1852)
"The ranees, too, were barefooted, their silk dresses were simple, and without
any ornaments, and they appeared to be indifferent to the awful though ..."
3. Cutch: Or, Random Sketches, Taken During a Residence in One of the Northern by Marianne Young, Marianna Postans (1839)
"Jewels of the ranees. — Etiquette of Departure. — Moral and Intellectual state
of Women in the East. " Shawls, the richest of Cashmere, Pearls from Oman's ..."
4. Hearings Before the Committee on the Public Lands of the House of by United States Congress. House. Committee on the Public Lands, William M. [from old catalog] Reece (1902)
"... farms an opportunity to protect the grass in the vicinity of their holdings
as a bar to the complete monopolization of ranees by owners of large herds. ..."
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