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Definition of Pale
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Pale
Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue. Not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or hue; dim; as, the pale light of the moon. Paleness; pallor. To turn pale; to lose color or luster. To make pale; to diminish the brightness of. A pointed stake or slat, either driven into the ground, or fastened to a rail at the top and bottom, for fencing or inclosing; a picket. That which incloses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a fence; a palisade. A space or field having bounds or limits; a limited region or place; an inclosure; -- often used figuratively. A stripe or band, as on a garment. One of the greater ordinaries, being a broad perpendicular stripe in an escutcheon, equally distant from the two edges, and occupying one third of it. A cheese scoop. A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened. To inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to encompass; to fence off. Related Definitions:
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Pale Quotations
Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy. Mohandas Gandhi No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to. Lucius Annaeus Seneca I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small. Georg Brandes Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings. Horace Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism. Audre Lorde |
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Pale Translations
pale in Danish is bleg pale in Dutch is verbleekt pale in Finnish is kalpea pale in Italian is pallido, scolorito pale in Latin is palus, pallidus, pallens, decolor pale in Norwegian is blek pale in Swedish is blek |
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