pale | Lernwerd

Forms

1.Light in color.
- She had pale skin because she didn't get much sunlight.
- She turned pale and screamed on seeing the spider in the toilet.
- I have pale yellow wallpaper.
2.Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
- His face turned pale after hearing about his mother's death.
- Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.
3.Feeble, faint.
- He is but a pale shadow of his former self.
- The son's clumsy paintings are a pale imitation of his father's.

1.A wooden stake; a picket.
- Ceiling joists were sometimes grooved to receive riven staves or pales that secured mud-and-straw walling.
2.Limits, bounds (especially before of).
- Men so situated, beyond the pale of the honor and the law, are not to be trusted.
- All things considered, we advise the male reader to keep his desires in check till he is at least twenty-five, and the female not to enter the pale of wedlock until she has attained the age of twenty.

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Etymology tree

Latin palleō

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.

Proto-Italic *-iðos

Latin -idus

Latin pallidus

Old French palebor.

Middle English pale

English pale