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▪ I. † dalle1 Obs. rare—1.
[app. an infantile word. Cf. daddle.]
The hand.
c1460Towneley Myst. (Surtees) 118 Haylle! put furthe thy dalle, I bryng the bot a balle.
▪ II. ‖ dalle2|dal|
[Fr., in both senses.
It is probable that the two senses are really distinct words; in sense 2, the F. word is the same as dale3; in sense 1 Hatzfeld suggests connexion with Ger. diele, board, deal.]
1. A flat slab of stone, marble, or terra cotta, used for flooring; spec. an ornamental or coloured slab for pavements in churches, etc.
1855Ecclesiologist XVI. 200 The choir, the chapels..were paved with these dalles.
2. pl. The name given (originally by French employés of the Hudson's Bay Company) in the Western U.S. to rapids where the rivers are compressed into long narrow trough-like channels.
1884Harper's Mag. Feb. 364/1 The Columbia River is there..compressed into ‘dalles’, or long, narrow, and broken troughs. 1890M. Townsend U.S. 137 The Dalles of the Columbia, Oregon; the Dalles of the Wisconsin, Minnesota.
Hence ˈdallage [Fr.], flooring with dalles.
1856Ecclesiologist XVII. 57 In the dallage the treatment is archaic. |