▪ I. † ˈhalling1 Obs.
Also 5 hawlyng(e, 5–6 hallyng.
[f. hall n.1 + -ing: cf. bedding, flooring.]
Tapestry or painted cloth for the walls of a hall.
| 1418 E.E. Wills (1882) 35 Alle the hustilmentis of Bed-dyng, hallyng, pottys & pannes. 1427 Mem. Ripon (Surtees) I. 329 Unum pannum pinctum vocatum hawlyng. 1483 Cath. Angl. 179/1 An Hawlynge, auleum. 1522 Bury Wills (Camden) 115 A hallyng of steynyd clothe w{supt} rynnyng vynys and leves w{supt} bestes and birdes. 1566 Eng. Church Furniture (Peacock) 94 Item one vale which our vicare haith and he haith made a halling therof. |
▪ II. halling, n.2
(ˈhælɪŋ)
[Norw., from Hallingdal, a valley in southern Norway.]
A Norwegian country-dance in triple rhythm; also, the music for such a dance.
| 1866 Plesner & Rugeley-Powers tr. Björnson's Arne ii. 13 Nils played; and the two gentlemen each gave a dollar for him, and then asked for the halling. 1924 Glasgow Herald 31 May 4 We have no space here to describe the wonderful Halling dance. 1947 A. Einstein Mus. Romantic Era xvii. 320 Many of these dances show evidence of great age and uninterrupted tradition—the leaping dance (springar) in 3/4 meter and the halling in duple meter. |