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salal

[< Chinook Jargon < Chinook klkwu-shala]
Pacific Coast
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

a small evergreen shrub, Gaultheria shallon.

Quotations

1825
Gaultheria Shallon [is] called by the natives "Salal' " not "Shallon."
1833
The glossy foliage of the sallals with their delicate pink flowers, and the star-eyed, scarlet-fruited pigeon berries, all contribute vivid spots of colour to the soft-toned pictures of the woods.
1962
Salal's an evergreen shrub used by florist's in bouquets instead of fern, and it has an edible berry . . . that gourmets use to make a jelly to eat with game.
2n.

the edible, purplish berry of the salal.

Quotations

1833
Have supped on Sallal & at dusk, shall turn in.
1964
[She] asked me if I had ever tasted salal or Oregon grape jelly.