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VALES
Noun
vales
plural of vale
Anagrams
• 'alves, Alves, Elvas, Levas, Selva, Slave, Slavé, Veals, avels, evals, laves, salve, selva, slave, valse, veals
Source: Wiktionary
VALE
Vale, n. Etym: [OE. val, F. val, L. vallis; perhaps akin to Gr. Avalanche, Vail to lower, Valley.]
Definition: A tract of low ground, or of land between hills; a valley. " Make me a cottage in the vale." Tennyson. Beyond this vale of tears there is a life above. Montgomery. In those fair vales, by nature formed to please. Harte.
Note: Vale is more commonly used in poetry, and valley in prose and common discourse.
Syn.
– Valley; dingle; dell; dale.
Vale, n.
Definition: See 2d Vail, 3.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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