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‖ rambla|ˈræmbla|
[Sp., ad. Arab. ramla, lit. ‘sandy ground’.]
1. A Spanish ravine, usu. waterless; the dry bed of an ephemeral stream.
1829W. Irving Conq. Granada I. xii. 97 Sometimes their road was a mere rambla, or dry bed of a torrent. 1845R. Ford Hand-bk. Spain I. 398/2 Three long L[eagues], by a rambla of red rocks, lead to Berja. 1923Blackw. Mag. Oct. 509/2 Before we reached this rambla, coming around a series of sharp bends down a hillside to a lower level, we were tempted by a combination of sun, dust, and the fortuitous appearance of a wayside venta to halt the Colonel. 1960Geogr. Rev. L. 60 Long stretches of drainage channels have been filled up..with erosion debris of rock fragments, gravel, and sand. Such debris-choked channels are called ramblas. 1977New Yorker 16 May 34/3 On the perimeter of the terrace were a four-foot-high chain-link fence, then a narrow rambla, and then another..fence.
2. A broad street in a city of eastern Spain, built on a shallow watercourse; spec. (now usu. in pl.) a broad avenue in Barcelona.
1829A. S. Mackenzie Year in Spain i. 37 Our fonda was situated..upon the Rambla, an immense highway through the city, the chief thoroughfare and promenade of Barcelona. 1873Amer. Cycl. II. 304/1 Foremost among its numerous promenades is the Rambla (so called from the Arabic raml, sand, applied to a dry river bed, used as a road). 1893Johnson's Universal Cycl. I. 497/1 The city is divided into the old and the new town by a beautiful promenade called La Rambla. 1923Blackw. Mag. Aug. 197/1 The rambla turned into a narrow valley. 1968Encycl. Brit. III. 154/2 Cutting through the old city to the west is the street called the Ramblas leading from the Puerta de la Paz to the Plaza de Cataluña, the centre of the modern Barcelona where are numerous banking houses. 1975D. Beaty Electric Train 34 She had seen the boys and girls promenading up and down in the evening on the ramblas. |