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ramada

[ ruh-mah-duh ]

noun

  1. an open shelter, often having a dome-shaped thatched roof, and installed especially on beaches and picnic grounds.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of ramada1

An Americanism first recorded in 1865–70; from Latin American Spanish: “open shelter roofed with branches”; earlier Spanish enramada “arbor, bower,” noun use of feminine past participle of enramar “to intertwine branches,” equivalent to en- in- 2 + -ramar, verbal derivative of ramo “branch,” from Latin rāmus

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Example Sentences

A nighttime curfew that was imposed a few weeks ago seems barely enforced now—no doubt to the relief of the women at the Ramada.

But even after the Tropicana transferred to the Ramada hotel chain, Briggs said she “never received a penny.”

Together they made their way to the house, and Ermine passed under the ramada with his hat off.

Oliver Drew awoke the next day after the fire dance in the ramada which had been assigned to him.

The night after the big snake-killing Jefferson Creede picked up his blankets and moved quietly back to the ramada with Hardy.

The cracked dirt of the ramada roof dissolved and fell away, and the stick frame leaked like a sieve.

The Governor continued his march until he came to a town called La Ramada.

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