glen

glen
glen "narrow valley," late 15c., from Scottish, from Gaelic gleann "mountain valley" (Cf. O.Ir. glenn, Welsh glyn). Common in place names; Cf. Glenlivet (1822), a kind of whiskey, named for the place it was first made (lit. "the glen of the Livet," a tributary of the Avon); and Glengarry (1841) a kind of men's cap, of Highland origin, named for a valley in Inverness-shire.

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