common reed (Phragmites australis); any reed; quill, feather pen
“La sagne, le roseau camarguais inséparable du paysage et du mode de vie du territoire, tapisse les parois sur lesquelles sont accrochés les tableaux, créant des allées végétales qui conduisent jusqu'à l'autel.”
Synonyms: sagne
From Old French rosel (“reed”), a derivative of Old French ros (“reed, tooth of a weaver's comb”), from Frankish *rausa (“reed”), from Proto-Germanic *rausą, *rauzą (“pipe, reed, shaft, tube”), from Proto-Indo-European *er- (“to move, excite, grow”). The base word survives as the obsolete ros (“weaver's comb”). Cognate with Old High German rōr (“pipe”) (German Rohr (“tube”)), Old Norse reyrr (“reed”) (Danish rør (“reed, pipe, tube”)), Old English rysc (“reed, rush”). More at rush.