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Hasibul Alam Posted 7 years ago
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If ramble means walk, then what is the meaning of ramble in this sentence?
She loved the house, the wood and stone ramble of it, the wraparound porch, the views of the lake and mountains.
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This is a rather unusual and "creative" use of "ramble". com/en/definition/rambling ). As far as I can understand it, this author seems to have taken this idea and used it to create a noun "ramble" meaning an irregular spread.
- This is a rather unusual and "creative" use of "ramble".
- com/en/definition/rambling ).
- As far as I can understand it, this author seems to have taken this idea and used it to create a noun "ramble" meaning an irregular spread.
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This is a rather unusual and "creative" use of "ramble". We use the word "rambling", of a building, to mean "spreading irregularly in various directions" (https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/rambling). As far as I can understand it, this author seems to have taken this idea and
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