Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of a breed of merino sheep of French origin, raised for wool and meat.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun hardy sheep developed from the merino producing both good mutton and fine wool
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
Ephems of BLB 2009
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My Rambouillet will be the proverbial Tom Bombadil once again...
From The BSNYC Culture Desk: Art and Transience BikeSnobNYC 2008
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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 2006
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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 2006
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"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.
Molly Brown's Orchard Home Nell Speed 1895
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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).
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One suggestion is opening luxury hotels in chateaux including Chambord in the central Loire Valley and Rambouillet outside Paris.
Cash-Strapped France Turns To Tourism For Financial Aid AP 2010
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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.
Fron Nahzi: US and EU Man in Kosovo: Is He the Chosen One or the Only Candidate Left? 2010
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: In Rambouillet, a traditional stronghold of the right near Paris, the candidate of the conservative UMP is defeated by a leftist-green rival.
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From photographs on the web site sheep101. info, they bear a strong resemblance to Rambouillet rams, “the backbone of the American sheep industry.”
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