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dall¹

Where it comes from

Compare French dalle, dallage.

noun dalls

  1. A tile with an incised surface. […] for such machine-made slate "dalls," or tiles, as perhaps we might call them, would soon be valued by the architect and builder for the roofs of many other classes of buildings as well as ecclesiastical ones.

Dall²

Where it comes from

Etymologically unrelated to Dahl as in Roald Dahl?

proper noun

  1. A lake in Alaska.
  2. The Dall River in British Columbia.
  3. A surname. For example, William Healey Dall.

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"dall." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/dall. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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dall. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/dall

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"dall." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/dall.

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@misc{dall_2026,
  title = {dall},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dall},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}