MEANING
A valley, especially in poetic or elevated descriptions.
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- green vale
- wooded vale
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Evening shadows gathered in the green vale.
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- vale
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Usage notes
Primary category: setting / environment. Forms: Singular vale; plural vales. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: setting, description. Commonness: uncommon.
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