Lexicographical Neighbors of Aleye
Literary usage of Aleye
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... the Jewes han conspired This innocent out of this world to chace: An homicide
therto han they hired, That in an aleye had a privée place, ..."
2. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"aleye. An alley. ... therto han they hired That in an aleye had a privée place.
ALEYN. Alone. Chaucer, Cant. ..."
3. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1847)
"aleye. An alley. ... han they hired That in an aleye had a privée place. ALEYN.
Alone. Chaucer, Cant. T. 13498. ..."
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