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Allan-a-Dale
[ al-uhn-uh-deyl ]
noun
- (in English balladry) a member of Robin Hood's band who carried off his sweetheart just before she was to be forced into marriage with an aged knight.
Allan-a-Dale
/ ˌælənəˈdeɪl /
noun
- (in English balladry) a member of Robin Hood's band who saved his sweetheart from an enforced marriage and married her himself
Example Sentences
Is not a boy who knows the happy likeness of Old King Cole or Allan-a-Dale as well educated as he who recognizes the picture of an alcoholic liver?
He asked of my 'house and my home,' as they did of Allan-a-Dale.
Then he again asked the important question, to which Allan-a-Dale's answer was so unreasonable and so successful.
Perhaps I may boast so far as to say that I have laughed on the lass as successfully as did Allan-a-Dale.
One day, therefore, after having returned from the daily allowance of slaughter, he contrived to find Sir Thomas in the solitude of his own room, and again began to act the part of Allan-a-Dale.
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