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Vale of Avoʹca

in Wicklow, Ireland.

“Sweet Vale of Avoca, how calm could I rest

In thy bosom of shade, with the friends I love best.”


T. Moore: Irish Melodies, No. 1 (The Meeting of the Waters.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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V. D. M. I. Æ. (Verbum Dei manet in aternum)
V. V. V.
Vacuum
Vacuum Boyleanum
Vade Mecum [a go-with-me]
Væ Victis!
Vail (To)
Vails
Vain as a Peacock
Valdarno
Vale of Avoca
Vale of Tears
Vale the Bonnet (To)
Valens or Valanus
Valentia
Valentine
Valentinians
Valerian or Valirian
Valerian (the herb)
Valhalla
Valiant (The)