valonia
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of valonia
1715–25; < Italian vallonia < Modern Greek balánia, plural of baláni acorn
Example Sentences
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He had begun his performance a few yards away, fully concealed amid the squat Valonia oaks and barbed thickets of nettles, and although I knew Chaldoupis was there, crouching in the woods, his song felt like an emanation from deep within the earth, a conjuring.
From New York Times
The valonia trade has also steadily developed, and is supplemented by the export of timber, tobacco and almonds.
From Project Gutenberg
A new town then began to spring up, settlers being attracted by the prospect of opening up a trade in the products of a vast forest of valonia oaks which grew near.
From Project Gutenberg
Valonia, va-lō′ni-a, n. the large acorn-cup of a species of oak which grows round the Levant, used in tanning.
From Project Gutenberg
Under its Turkish name of Behram, Assus is still the commercial port of the southern Troad, being the place to which loads of valonia are conveyed by camels from all parts of the country.
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