Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
ran .
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- noun A
stanza of Irishpoetry .
Etymologies
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Examples
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As the Irish should serve Patrick, so should the Deisi serve Declan as their patron, and Patrick made the "rann": --
Life of St. Declan of Ardmore and Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore Anonymous
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The Irish text of the "rann" from paragraph 26 reads:
Life of St. Declan of Ardmore and Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore Anonymous
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The Irish text of the "rann" from paragraph 26 reads:
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Among the mammal fauna, the blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra), chinkara (Gazella bennettii), caracal (Felis caracal), and desert fox (Vulpes bengalensis) inhabit the open plains, grasslands, and saline depressions known as chappar or rann in the core area of the desert.
Thar desert 2008
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Lift it, Hosty, lift it, ye devil ye! up with the rann, the rhyming rann!
Finnegans Wake 2006
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And around the lawn the rann it rann and this is the rann that
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Hence it is that the story-teller sang the rann: --
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The Irish text of the “rann” from paragraph 26 reads:
Lives of SS Declan and Mochuda Anonymous 1914
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As the Irish should serve Patrick, so should the Deisi serve Declan as their patron, and Patrick made the “rann”: ” “Humble Ailbe the Patrick of Munster, greater than any saying,
Lives of SS Declan and Mochuda Anonymous 1914
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Order'd to guard them with their Armes. after wee saw we weir so worsted and beaten, fighting against so greate Advantage, Some peopple rann to bid them come away as could march, for our Party was gon out of the towne. the Spaniards seeing thiss gott fresh to their
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898
raven_in_the_woods commented on the word rann
Found in At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
April 12, 2013