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dalesmen

dalesmen is the plural of dalesman.

Meaning of dalesman

Noun

dalesman (plural dalesmen)

  1. A person from the Yorkshire Dales, or sometimes a person from Lakeland.
    • And soon my lady put a pretty little tombstone over Tom’s shell in the little churchyard in Vendale, where the old dalesmen all sleep side by side between the lime-stone crags.1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby

Questions about dalesmen

What is dalesmen the plural of?
Dalesmen is the plural of dalesman.

Words near dalesmen in the dictionary

  1. Dalesandros
  2. dalesfolk
  3. daleside
  4. dalesides
  5. dalesman
  6. dalesmen
  7. dalespeople
  8. Dalessandro
  9. Dalessandros
  10. Dalessio
  11. Dalessios

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