Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of a breed of merino sheep of French origin, raised for wool and meat.
WordNet 3.0
- n. hardy sheep developed from the merino producing both good mutton and fine wool
Etymologies
- After Rambouillet, a town of north-central France. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“What he calls the Rambouillet "peace conference" was in reality a partisan exercise to manufacture an excuse for bombing the Serbs to punish them retrospectively for Bosnia.”
“My Rambouillet will be the proverbial Tom Bombadil once again...”
“It was the so-called Rambouillet accords of March, 1999, a take-it-or-leave-it offer that no sane or responsible leader would ever agree to.”
SHAM US PROPOSAL TO IRAN EVOKES MEMORIES OF PAST SIMILAR ONES
“Rambouillet" on a passing station, and then the fact became clear to her that she was on the wrong train, going from Paris instead of towards it.”
“The Nato intervention was illegal (never authorised by the UN), based on a false prospectus (the Rambouillet conference concocted a pretext for attacking Serbia), unnecessary (the possibilities of a peaceful solution had not been exhausted) and incompetently executed (thousands of innocent civilians killed, non-military targets destroyed).”
“One suggestion is opening luxury hotels in chateaux including Chambord in the central Loire Valley and Rambouillet outside Paris.”
The Huffington Post: Cash-Strapped France Turns To Tourism For Financial Aid
“Thaci, one of three KLA spokespersons, on the other hand rose to power when Western leaders hand picked him to be the face of Kosovo during the 1999 EU and US-led Rambouillet negotiations between Serbia and Kosovo.”
“: In Rambouillet, a traditional stronghold of the right near Paris, the candidate of the conservative UMP is defeated by a leftist-green rival.”
The Wall Street Journal: Sarkozy Challenges Financing Allegations
“From photographs on the web site sheep101. info, they bear a strong resemblance to Rambouillet rams, “the backbone of the American sheep industry.””
“Since they began at Rambouillet, France, in 1975, these annual economic summits have been treated as momentous events, but they are memorable mostly for being forgettable.”
Robert Kuttner: The G-20 Conference -- Thin Air at the Summit
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘Rambouillet’.
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Open List: Sheepishness
Everything sheep, from Artiodactyla to zodiac.
lanolin, ram, ewe, Artiodactyla, even-toed ungulate, ruminant, Ovis aries, ovine, domestic, domesticated, neotenic, mouflon and 426 more...
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Arcades Ambo
arcades ambo, bamboo, ambo, amboyna, bambino, Amboise, framboise, dithurambos, Rambo, flamboyant, gamboge, mambo and 33 more...
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Panvocalic Proper
Capitalized words that contain all the vowels once, "y" optional. I transferred some of the items previously listed here to Panvocalic people, Panvocalic places, and Panvocalic organisms. See also ...
Belorussian, Cointreau, Eudoxian, Gauloises, Hutchesonian, Neogaullist, Ouspenskian, Quixotean, Rambouillet, Weymouthian, Republocratic, Eurobanking and 259 more...
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