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dalesman|ˈdeɪlzmən|
[= dale's man from dale1.]
A native or inhabitant of a dale; esp. of the dales of Cumbria, Yorkshire, and adjacent northern counties of England.
1769Gray Jrnl. in Lakes Wks. 1884 I. 257 A little path..passable to the Dale's-men. 1813Scott Rokeby iii. ii, In Redesdale his youth had heard Each art her wily dalesmen dared. 1848Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 285 Even after the accession of George the Third, the path over the fells from Borrowdale to Ravenglas was still a secret carefully kept by the dalesmen.
So ˈdalesfolk, ˈdalespeople, ˈdaleswoman.
1863M. Howitt F. Bremer's Greece I. 224 Our dales⁓folk of Mora. 1886Hall Caine Son of Hagar i. ii, There is a tough bit of Toryism in the grain of these Northern dalesfolk. 1883F. A. Malleson Wordsw. & Duddon in Gd. Words, The dreary wastes of Wrynose, which the dalespeople call Wreyness. 1892Mrs. H. Ward David Grieve I. v. 362 Her daleswoman's self-respect could put up with him no longer. |