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.
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- 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.
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My Rambouillet will be the proverbial Tom Bombadil once again...
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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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