alew
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Imitative. Compare halloo.
Noun
[edit]alew (plural alews)
- (obsolete, rare) A cry of despair.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Yet did she not lament with loude alew, / As women wont, but with deepe sighes and singults few.
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[edit]Romanization
[edit]alew
- Romanization of 𐌰𐌻𐌴𐍅