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Rambouillet

WordNet
  1. (n) Rambouillet
    hardy sheep developed from the merino producing both good mutton and fine wool
Usage in the news

Originating in Idaho in the early 1900's, the Panama began as a cross between Rambouillet rams and Lincoln ewes. sheepusa.org

In this Friday, Nov 27, 2009 file photo, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, right, looks on as Mikhail Prokhorov signs an agreement, during a Franco-Russian meeting in Rambouillet, France. onlineathens.com

Usage in literature

What would not English taste have effected with the capabilities of Rambouillet? "Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808" by Lt-Col. Pinkney

Rambouillet, decree of, 199-200. "Union and Democracy" by Allen Johnson

It was the Hotel de Rambouillet reduced to absurdity. "Classic French Course in English" by William Cleaver Wilkinson

The Rambouillets she purchased had kept fat where the merinos had lost weight on the same feed. "The Fighting Shepherdess" by Caroline Lockhart

When he arrived at Rambouillet, he alighted from his carriage, and said, that he would pass the night at the castle. "Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II" by Pierre Antoine Edouard Fleury de Chaboulon

Cloud, Versailles, Meudon, and Rambouillet. "Glances at Europe" by Horace Greeley

It was notably during the presidency of Felix Faure that Rambouillet again took on its animation of former times. "Royal Palaces and Parks of France" by Milburg Francisco Mansfield

The Decree of Rambouillet, then less than six months old, was clothed with the like sanction. "Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812" by Alfred Thayer Mahan

There was much of the Hotel de Rambouillet in such a mind as hers. "Political Women (Vol. 1 of 2)" by Sutherland Menzies

It was Rambouillet; they did not know it, but they felt that it was. "The Regent's Daughter" by Alexandre Dumas (Pere)