Vale vs Veale - What's the difference?
vale | veale |
(mostly, poetic) A valley.
* (rfdate) Harte
* , Hymn 214'', ''The Issues of Life and Death ,
* 19th c , ,
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, passage=Biefe, Mutton, and Porke, shred pies of the best, Pig, veale , goose, and capon, and Turkey well drest. }}
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, passage=And so I to my Lord Crew's, thinking to have dined there, but it was too late, and so back and called at my brother's and Mr. Holden's about several businesses, and went all alone to the Black Spread Eagle in Bride Lane, and there had a chopp of veale and some bread, cheese, and beer, cost me a shilling to my dinner
As a verb vale
is to be worth.As a noun veale is
.vale
English
Etymology 1
(etyl), from (etyl) , from (etyl) vallis, vallesNoun
(en noun)- In those fair vales , by nature formed to please, / Where Guadalquiver serpentines with ease
- Beyond this vale of tears / There is a life above,
- "Make me a cottage in the vale ," she said, / "Where I may mourn and pray.
Synonyms
* (valley) dale ** See alsoAntonyms
* (valley) hillEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Anagrams
* English heteronyms ----veale
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