sallee
sally
- Also called: snow gum a SE Australian eucalyptus tree, Eucalyptus pauciflora, with a pale grey bark
- any of various acacia trees
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Word Origin
probably of native origin
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Examples from the Web for sallee
Contemporary Examples
“Maybe in the late eighties or early nineties something like that could have happened,” Sallee said.
Historical Examples
Descendants, named Sallee, now live in Kentucky and Tennessee.
Chronicles of Border WarfareAlexander Scott Withers
Our master said it was a Sallee man-of-war, that seemed to give us chase.
George FoxGeorge Fox
A Moorish pirate ship, named from Sallee, a seaport of Morocco.
George FoxGeorge Fox
The scud hides the shore, but he judges that we are not far from Sallee.
The PursuitFrank (Frank Mackenzie) Savile
That slam in the slats which Sallee handed him supplied the confidence.
Pitching in a PinchChristy Mathewson