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===Etymology=== The name of the city comes from the French word ''[[Wiktionary:dalle|dalle]]'', meaning either "sluice", akin to English "dale" and German ''T''[''h'']''al'', "valley", or "flagstone", referring to the [[columnar basalt]] rocks carved by the river<ref>{{cite book |last= Gibson |first= James R. | title= The Lifeline of the Oregon Country: The Fraser-Columbia Brigade System, 1811β47 |year= 1997 |publisher= University of British Columbia (UBC) Press |isbn= 0-7748-0643-5 |page= [https://archive.org/details/lifelineoforegon0000gibs/page/125 125] |url= https://archive.org/details/lifelineoforegon0000gibs|url-access= registration }}</ref><ref name=OGN>{{OGN|6th|page=826}}</ref> (in ''[[voyageurs|voyageur]]'' French used to refer to rapids), which was used by the [[French-Canadian]] employees of the [[North West Company]] to refer to the rapids of the [[Columbia River]] between the present-day city and [[Celilo Falls]]. Also in the same area was the Petites Dalles or Little Dalles, or Short Narrows. In French, "les dalles" means "the slabs". When a river flows over hard flat rocks, it becomes shallow, and rapids are created.
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