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单词 ramoneur
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ramoneurn.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French ramoneur.
Etymology: < French ramoneur colour resembling that of soot (1843 or earlier), chimney sweep (c1470 in Middle French) < ramoner to sweep (c1210 in Old French; < ramon broom (although this is first attested slightly later: c1300; < rame branch (see rame n.1) + -on -oon suffix)) + -eur -eur suffix.
Obsolete. rare.
1. A colour resembling that of soot.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > black or blackness > [noun] > typical blackness > as soot
fuliginousness1576
fuliginosity1662
ramoneur1793
1793–4 J. Swan in New Eng. Q. 10 (1937) 470 He even specified the colors preferred in taffetas: ‘brown, ramoneur, Quaker, white, black, pink, gray, blue and chocolate.’
1835 Court Mag. 5 p. ii/1 Velvet and satin hats of a new colour called ramoneur (it is a dingy shade of brown, approaching nearly to black).
1849 New Monthly Mag. 85 454 The inventor and designer of those lovely ramoneur helmets.
2. A chimney sweep.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning house > [noun] > cleaning chimneys > one who
chimney-sweeper?1518
sweep-chimney1657
lily-white1699
chimney-sweep1709
sooterkin1795
sweepy1798
sweep1812
ramoneura1859
chummy1860
chimney-cleanser1905
chimney-cleaner1906
fluonomist1946
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning house > [noun] > cleaning chimneys > machine for
scandiscope1826
ramoneura1859
1850 Times 25 Jan. 5/3 Some sweeps..exerted themselves in such a way as to satisfy even the most captious philanthropist or ramoneur director that their calling was in no way injurious to the lungs.]
a1859 Lady Morgan Memoirs (1862) I. v. 31 I was the first who applied the ramoneur to an Irish chimney in my own house.
1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock 40 Smoke has been merciful to Covent Garden market, and its cornucopia is not as dingy as a ramoneur's sack.

Compounds

Ramoneur machine n. a machine for sweeping chimneys.
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1843 Times 2 Feb. 5/4 The extraordinary advertisements..which have appeared in the Times and other papers in reference to the Ramoneur Machine.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 373/2 Cleansing chimneys with the Patent Ramoneur Machine.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online September 2020).
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