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  • noun Plural form of rhone.

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Examples

  • The roof and walls are back on, the windows are in and they have even started to paint the rhones and downpipes.

    The time has come.... Spinningfishwife 2007

  • The roof and walls are back on, the windows are in and they have even started to paint the rhones and downpipes.

    Archive 2007-02-01 Spinningfishwife 2007

  • All the outside pipes, from the rhones to the drains, is being redone.

    Fig Rolls and Caffeine Spinningfishwife 2006

  • All the outside pipes, from the rhones to the drains, is being redone.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Spinningfishwife 2006

  • Almost tastes like an aussie shiraz or some big rhones.

    CellarTracker Tasting Notes (all notes) 2010

  • Will be still ok in 2+ years from now. on 11/12/2008 & rated 92 points: drunk at the Westbourne-decanted for 3 hours. .lighter rubyish color. a bit of stewey fruits on the nose. spicy and a bit plummy in the mouth, some tar and smoke flavor. good balance and med length ... one of the better rhones of the night

    CellarTracker Tasting Notes (all notes) 2010

  • From a distance the Lodge is imposing, with its baronial turreting and stepped roofing, its well-grown timber and its lawns reaching to the river with its series of salmon pools, but from nearer can be seen the signs of the neglect enforced by the recent war; the woodwork could do with a coat of paint, the rhones all too obviously need to be cleaned out, the lawns are no longer lawns, but pastures cropped by sheep.

    Rose cottage Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1997

  • From a distance the Lodge is imposing, with its baronial turreting and stepped roofing, its well-grown timber and its lawns reaching to the river with its series of salmon pools, but from nearer can be seen the signs of the neglect enforced by the recent war; the woodwork could do with a coat of paint, the rhones all too obviously need to be cleaned out, the lawns are no longer lawns, but pastures cropped by sheep.

    Rose cottage Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1997

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