An archaic or dialectal term for a halt, stop, or resting place.
From Old French 'halte', from Italian 'alta' (stop), ultimately from Frankish *halt- meaning to hold or stop.
This word traveled from Germanic languages into Romance languages and back into English, showing how military vocabulary bounced around medieval Europe as armies moved through it.
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