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Ramee

noun

Tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves; cultivated for the fiber from its woody stems that resembles flax. Synonyms: Boehmeria nivea, China grass, Chinese silk plant, ramie.

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... few women writers who have created more stir by their works than Louise de la Ramee, the lady who wrote under the pen name of Ouida. Born of English and French parentage at Bury St. Edmund, England, in 1840, she began to turn to account her undoubted literary talents at the age of twenty, when she contributed to the "New Monthly" and "Bentley's ...

— The World's Greatest Books, Vol VI. • Various

... appeared upon the scene. The cure, a nice, kindly faced old man, with white hair and florid complexion, was much interested in all the details of the hunt. It seems the stag is often taken in these ponds, les etangs de la ramee, which are quite a feature in the country, and one of the sights of the Villers-Cotterets forest, where strangers are always brought. They are very picturesque; the trees slope down to the edge of the ponds, and when the bright autumn foliage is ...

— Chateau and Country Life in France • Mary King Waddington

Words linked to "Ramee" : genus Boehmeria, bog hemp, false nettle, Boehmeria