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valley

/ˈvæli/ noun A2
  1. An elongated depression cast between hills or mountains, often with a river flowing through it. · The Indus River valley was the site of an ancient civilization.
  2. An area which drains itself into a river.
  3. Any structure resembling one, e.g. the interior angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.

Plural valleys

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Away down the valley,
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 4 · C1
And down the red-hot valley, lo!
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 18 · C1
On the smiling valleys;
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 20 · C1
Father Wolf listened, and below in the valley that ran down to a little river he heard the dry, angry, snarly, singsong whine of a tiger who has caught nothing and does not care if all the jungle knows it.
The Jungle Book, p. 3 · B2

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