Definition of Pale

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Definition of Pale

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.

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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

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.
Julius Caesar

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

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.
Berenice Abbott

The tones of gray, pale turquoise and pink will prevail.
Christian Dior

There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
Thomas Hardy

For me, the summer will be pure gray - mother-of-pearl gray, very pale gray. To me, this is the big statement for summer. Then we have light blue, light turquoise, lots of pink.
Gianni Versace

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

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.
Horace

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
Horace

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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