ramage

From Latin ramus, branch, and derived (around 1160) from Old French ram, raim, raion «branch» (→ rameau) with the suffix -age, like feuillage from feuille.alain rey, dictionnaire historique de la langue française, 2009 (12th century) used adjectivally in the sense of «branchy». The sense of «birdsong in the branches» appears in 1549, that of «discourse» in 1588, that of «branch motif» in 1611.