ranz des vaches Meaning, Definition & Usage

Ranz" des` vaches"
Etymology
F., the ranks or rows of cows, the name being given from the fact that the cattle, when answering the musical call of their keeper, move towards him in a row, preceded by those wearing bells.
Definitions
  1. The name for numerous simple, but very irregular, melodies of the Swiss mountaineers, blown on a long tube called the Alpine horn, and sometimes sung.

Webster 1913