Noun: vale
Sample Sentences
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In those fair vales, by nature form'd to please, / Where Guadalquiver serpentines with ease, [1767, Walter Harte, “The Vision of Death”, in The Works of the English Poets, volume 16, published 1810, page 370:]
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"Make me a cottage in the vale," she said, / "Where I may mourn and pray. [1832, Alfred Tennyson, The Palace of Art:]
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Beyond this vale of tears / There is a life above, [a. 1854, James Montgomery, “Hymn 214”, in The Issues of Life and Death:]
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The short sweet turfage of the hills renders "Portland mutton" almost as famous as Welsh, while the luxuriance of the vales lends itself to the breeding of fine cattle. [1910, Arthur L. Salmon, Dorset, page 6:]
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But now a cry went up, passing up the wind from the south from vale to vale, and Elves and Men lifted their voices in wonder and joy. [1977, J. R. R. Tolkien, “Of the Fifth Battle”, in The Silmarillion:]
Nouns inflected like vale
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English vale, from Old French val (“valley”), from Latin vallis, valles. Displaced native Old English dell. See: Middle English Nouns '
vale', Latin Nouns '
vallis, valles'.