I. adjective
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a rambling New England farmhouse
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Perot's rambling speech swung from economics to education.
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From the front door of the rambling palazzo which housed the pensione she turned left and walked along the Riviera.
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He set off on a long rambling account of something that had happened in the bar that afternoon.
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It was a rambling old place, crooked and picturesque.
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Many farmers and tenant farmers live in big old rambling houses.
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Seeing all the designs together in one large rambling shop confirms how fresh and charming they are.
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There is also rambling thought in which the mind is not pressed to solve anything and merely rambles aimlessly.
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Tomatoes leaned on stakes, runner beans twined round a wigwam of canes and rambling roses rambled over their appointed places.
II. noun
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But how to word it so that it didn't sound like the rambling of a wild man?
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I hadn't done this amount of countryside rambling since I was drummed out of the Boy Scouts.
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It's an excellent time for walking and rambling .
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Jay was given to grandiloquent rambling , and had to check herself.
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Scores of rambling and cycling clubs headed remorselessly for the Dales each weekend, come rain or shine.
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The terrain's just as perfect for rambling or mountain biking as for exploring à cheval.