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Definition of Rambouillet
1. Noun. Hardy sheep developed from the merino producing both good mutton and fine wool.
Definition of Rambouillet
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rambouillet
Literary usage of Rambouillet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1908)
"Rambouillet ram. American Delaine Merino Record Association, ... The Rambouillet
is a very large type of Merino, developed in France from Spanish Merino ..."
2. Types and Breeds of Farm Animals by Charles Sumner Plumb (1920)
"The ancestry of the Rambouillet is Spanish, this being a member of the great ...
In 1783 Louis XVI bought a large estate at the village of Rambouillet, ..."
3. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"Rambouillet, a town of France, in the department of Seine-et-Oise, 30 m. SW of
Puris; pop. in 1872,4725. It contains a palace built in the shape of a horse ..."
4. Productive Sheep Husbandry by Walter Castella Coffey (1918)
"Henceforth, these sheep were to take the name of this farm, which was formerly
the property of the Marquis ill' Rambouillet, the famous Savant of the time ..."
5. France Under Mazarin: With a Review of the Administration of Richelieu by James Breck Perkins (1886)
"At the Hotel Rambouillet Corneille read his tragedies, Balzac talked of ...
But while at the Hotel Rambouillet, the roughnesses which still appeared in ..."
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