dells

[ delz ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

plural noun

Origin of dells¹

By construal as a plural of dell

The spell is wrought: imagination swells My sleeping-room to hills, and woods, and dells!

The Covenanters met to worship God in the moorlands and dells, setting a watch for the dragoons of Claverhouse.

A real forest it is—six hundred acres in extent, and varied by steep declivities, wild dells, and tangled dingles.

No lightsome laughter echoed through those leafy dells, grating upon the ear which almost listened for the loved voice.

Sometimes I 'fell,' as I drank deep then of the magic well-water, and went astray in the green dells and avenues of the wildwood.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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