vale

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  1. noun A valley, often coursed by a stream; a dale.
  2. interjection Used to express leave-taking or farewell.
  3. noun A farewell.

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  • This vale was the favourite hunting-ground of the Indians; and a fairer country for the chase could not well be imagined than this rolling, well-wooded, luxuriant valley, extending from hill to hill, from dale to dale, for so many long miles. —  Diary in America, Series One
  • The scenery in this channel is great and wild in all its features; wood is very scarce; vast rocks seem tossed in confusion through the narrow vale, which is opened among the mountains for the river to pass. —  A Tour in Ireland 1776-1779
  • At each end of the vale is a lake of about twelve miles in length, and behind the stern mountains which enclose the glen, are salt-water lakes, one of them an arm of the sea. —  Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.
  • If an eagle were so partial to his native vale, as never on any account, hungry or thirsty, drunk or sober, to venture into the next parish, why then the old people would be forced, on the old principle of self-preservation, to pack off their progeny to bed and board beyond Benevis. —  Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
  • Even this very afternoon will the rainbow span the blue entrance into Rydal's woody vale, as if to hail the westering sun on his approach to the mountains--and a hundred hill-born torrents will be seen flashing out of the upfolding mists. —  Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old French val, from Latin vallēs; see wel-2 in Indo-European roots.
  2. Latin valē, sing. imperative of valēre, to be strong or well; see wal- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English vale, val, from Old French (and F.) val = Provencal val, valhCatalan vall = Spanish Portuguese Italian valle, from Latin vallis, a vale; connections uncertain. Hence ult. valley, avale, avalanche, vail.
  2. from Latin vale, imperative of valere, be strong, be well: see valid, valiant.
 

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