allée

See also: allee and Allee

English

Alternative forms

• allee

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French allée. Doublet of alley.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.leɪ/

Noun

allée (plural allées)

1. An alley in a formal garden or park, bordered by trees or bushes.

Anagrams

• Leela

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French alee, allee.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.le/

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• Homophone: aller

Noun

allée f (plural allées)

1. path, lane, allée
2. hallway (leading from the entrance of a house)
3. aisle (between rows of seats)
4. driveway
5. bowling lane
6. 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.

Derived terms

• allée couverte

Descendants

• → Danish: allé
• → German: Allee
• → English: allée
• → Norwegian Bokmål: allé
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: allé
• → Romanian: alee
• → Russian: аллея (alleja)

Participle

allée f sg

1. feminine singular of allé

Further reading

• “allée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Norman

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Noun

allée f (plural allées)

1. (Jersey) hall