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Definition of rangale in English:

rangale

noun

rare

  • A herd of deer, as distinguished from the leaders of the herd.

    • ‘he sat and smiled benevolently amidst a rangale of grazing deer’

Pronunciation

rangale

/ˈraNGɡ(ə)l/ /ˈræŋɡ(ə)l/

Origin

Late Middle English (in sense ‘main body of an army’): from Old French rengaille, ringaille‘dregs of an army, camp followers’, from renge range.