Ramage
/ˈræmɪdʒ/noun
A branch or cluster of branches; also used in heraldry for a tree with branches.
Did you know?In medieval and heraldic French, *ramage* could describe the branching of a tree, and in literary English it also came to evoke the “ramage” of birds — the natural world as a living, branching chorus.
Etymological Timeline
Latin
Latin
ramus
“a branch”
Old French
OF
ramage
“branching; branches; woodland growth”
Middle English
English
ramage
“branches or boughs; a thicket”
Modern English
English
ramage
“a branch or cluster of branches; in heraldry, a tree represented with branches”
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