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The original form is La Ramée, quite literally, "the boughs". It's the name of a Cistercian nunnery, now in Belgium, and the secondary surname of a Quebecois family, one of whom the city of Laramie, the Laramie river and several other places in the US are named. "Tears of love" is a modern folk-etymology, blending larme "tears" with amie "friend, lover", to form a portmanteau L'Académie française would call for the guillotine over.

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