Vale
Vale (vāl) , noun
[Old English val, French val, Latin vallis; perhaps akin to Greek 'e`los low ground, marsh meadow. Compare Avalanche, Vail to lower, Valley.]
A tract of low ground, or of land between hills; a valley.
Make me a cottage in the vale.
Beyond this vale of tears there is a life above.
In those fair vales, by nature formed to please.
Vale is more commonly used in poetry, and valley in prose and common discourse.
Vale , noun
See 2d Vail, 3.