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ramage
I. ramage adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Old French, living in the branches of trees, wild, from ram, raim branch (from Latin ramus) + -age (as in salvage savage) — more at ramify
obsolete : untamed, wild
II. ram·age \ˈramij\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: French, from Old French, from ram, raim branch + -age
1. : the boughs or branches of a tree
2. : the cry of birds
< grew from the ramage of birds to the hurry of wind — Hugh McCrae >
3. : a genealogical tree of a segmentary unilateral descent group |