rance
/ɹæns/ noun C2- A type of coloured marble from Belgium. Rance is red and often has white or blue graining.
- A round or spreader between the legs of a chair.
Plural rances
From the library
“John Rance,” he said.
WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL.
We picked our way among groups of dirty children, and through lines of discoloured linen, until we came to Number 46, the door of which was decorated with a small slip of brass on which the name Rance was engraved.
Rance sat down on the horsehair sofa, and knitted his brows as though determined not to omit anything in his narrative.
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