rambla
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of rambla
1820–30; < Spanish < Arabic ramlah
Example Sentences
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In feel, it rolls out like a Barcelona “lite” – with its chic, artsy neighborhoods, crowded but sensual beaches, its buzzing, shaded rambla and even its own Gaudí contribution.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 1, 2017
Sometimes their road was a mere rambla, or dry bed of a torrent, cut deep into the mountains and filled with their shattered fragments.
From Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada by Washington Irving
Sometimes their road was a mere rambla, or dry bed of a torrent cut deep into the mountains and filled with their shattered fragments.
From The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole
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