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Rambouillet

noun

Hardy sheep developed from the merino producing both good mutton and fine wool.

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"Rambouillet" Quotes from Famous Books

... Scudery (1607-1701), a native of Normandy, went to Paris and became connected with the Hotel Rambouillet. Afterwards, on its being broken up by the troubles of the Fronde, she formed a literary circle of her own, their "Saturday gatherings" becoming celebrated. Mademoiselle de Scudery wrote some vapid and tedious novels, amongst which were the Clelie (1656), an historical romance, to be ...

— Weird Tales, Vol. II. • E. T. A. Hoffmann

... slowly returning and expressed itself in an increase of speed, which seemed to Mazeroux a revenge executed upon himself. They raced over the cobble-stones of Chartres. Rambouillet, Chevreuse, and Versailles received the terrifying vision of a thunderbolt tearing across them from ...

— The Teeth of the Tiger • Maurice Leblanc

... de Rambouillet, who appeared after his death to the Marquis de Precy, is very celebrated. These two lords, conversing on the subject of the other world, like people who were not very strongly persuaded of the truth of all that is said upon it, promised each other ...

— The Phantom World - or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. • Augustin Calmet

Words linked to "Rambouillet" : Ovis aries, domestic sheep