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ranz des vaches

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One of the melodies or signals of the Swiss herdsmen, commonly played on the alpenhorn.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • The name for numerous simple, but very irregular, melodies of the Swiss mountaineers, blown on a long tube called the Alpine horn, and sometimes sung.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Any of numerous simple, but very irregular, melodies of the Swiss mountaineers, blown on a long tube called the Alpine horn, and sometimes sung.

Etymologies

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French, the ranks or rows of cows, the name being given from the fact that the cattle, when answering the musical call of their keeper, move towards him in a row, preceded by those wearing bells.

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