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English
Etymology
From Swiss French ranz des vaches.
Pronunciation
Noun
ranz des vaches (plural ranz des vaches)
- (music) Any of numerous traditional Swiss melodies played on the alpenhorn, originally to call cows in from the mountains.
1972, Friedrich Schiller, translated by William F. Mainland, Wilhelm Tell, act II, scene i:The herald cries his summons to the lists,
But no sound comes to these sequestered valleys;
I only hear the melancholy note
Of cowbells and the dreary ranz des vaches.
French
Etymology
From Swiss variant of rang des vaches (literally “rank of the cows”), calque of dialectal German Kuhreihen, with the second element Reihen (“dance”) misinterpreted at Reihe (“row”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁɑ̃ de vaʃ/, /ʁɑ̃s de vaʃ/
Noun
ranz des vaches m (plural ranz des vaches)
- (music) ranz des vaches
2023 November 15, Barbara Cassin, “Barbara Cassin, philosophe : « J’ai la nostalgie de cet hier où je pouvais croire que ce serait mieux demain »”, in Le Monde.fr:Pourtant, ironiquement, jamais ce mot de « nostalgie » ne prend forme avant que, en 1678, un médecin suisse, Jean-Jacques Harder, ne l’invente pour que les gardes suisses, ceux du pape comme ceux du roi, qui désertent quand ils entendent le ranz des vaches, ce chant des alpages, soient, non pas fusillés comme les déserteurs qu’ils sont, mais réintégrés et soignés comme des malades à chouchouter.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)