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Old French
Noun
balaine oblique singular, f (oblique plural balaines, nominative singular balaine, nominative plural balaines)
- Alternative form of baleine
late 12th century, anonymous author, “La Folie de Tristan de Berne”, in Le Roman de Tristan, Champion Classiques edition, →ISBN, page 310, lines 157–8:Qui t'engendra? — Uns galerous
— De que t'ot il? — D'une balaine- — Who is your father? — A walrus
— Who did he have you with? — A whale (Tristan is deliberately speaking nonsense in this passage in order to pass for a harmless madman)