The story
- French · borrowed fromallonge“a lengthening”
- English todayallonge
Borrowed from French allonge (“a lengthening”). Doublet of lunge.
Words from the same roots
Frenchallonge all →
lunge
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
allonge
Today it means: A slip of paper attached to a negotiable instrument to hold endorsements should the document itself be unable to hold any more. Full definition →
French allonge