allée
See also: allee and Allee
English
Alternative forms
- allee
Etymology
Borrowed from French allée. Doublet of alley.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈa.leɪ/
Noun
allée (plural allées)
- An alley in a formal garden or park, bordered by trees or bushes.
Anagrams
- Leela
French
Etymology
From Old French alee, allee.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.le/
Audio (file) - Homophone: aller
Noun
allée f (plural allées)
- path, lane, allée
- hallway (leading from the entrance of a house)
- aisle (between rows of seats)
- driveway
- bowling lane
- action of going (used nowadays only in the expression allées et venues: the repeated action of going and returning)
- 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Volume I, Chapter XXXIII:
- ... Lothaire commença à ralentir peu à peu, par réflexion, ses allées et venues dans la maison de son ami.
- ... Lothario started to abate little by little, by reflection, his comings and goings to the house of his friend.
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Descendants
- → Danish: allé
- → German: Allee
- → English: allée
- → Norwegian Bokmål: allé
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: allé
- → Russian: аллея (alleja)
Participle
allée f sg
- feminine singular of the past participle of aller
Further reading
- “allée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman
Etymology
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Noun
allée f (plural allées)
- (Jersey) hall