Rambouillet

[ram-boo-ley, rahn-boo-ye]

noun

1. one of a breed of hardy sheep, developed from the Merino, yielding good mutton and a fine grade of wool.

Rambouillet

¹

/ rɑ̃bujɛ /

noun

1. a town in N France, in the Yvelines department: site of the summer residence of French presidents. Pop: 24 758 (1999)

Rambouillet

²

/ rɑ̃bujɛ, ˈræmbʊˌleɪ, ˈrɒmbʊˌjeɪ /

noun

1. a fine-woolled merino-like breed of sheep

Word History and Origins

Origin of Rambouillet¹

First recorded in 1905–10; after Rambouillet, town and forest in N France, source of the breed

Word History and Origins

Origin of Rambouillet¹

C19: from _Rambouillet ¹

Example Sentences

It will be purified into bio-methane and injected into a pipeline to the nearby town of Rambouillet, heating its hospital, swimming pool and homes.

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The Rambouillet attacker was shot dead by police.

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The specter of terrorism returned last Friday, when a man fatally stabbed a female administrative worker at a police station in Rambouillet, a town near Paris, in what government officials called a terrorist attack.

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The Tunisian national who killed a police employee in Rambouillet, south of Paris, on Friday had watched extremist videos just before carrying out his attack, a counterterrorism prosecutor said.

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The police administrative worker, a mother of two, was stabbed in the throat on Friday at the entrance of the police station where she worked in the town of Rambouillet, west of Paris.

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