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Pale

adjective

(compar. paler; superl. palest)

1.

Very light colored; highly diluted with white. "Pale blue eyes"

2.

(of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble. Synonyms: pallid, sick, wan. "A pale sun" , "The late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street" , "A pallid sky" , "The pale (or wan) stars" , "The wan light of dawn"

3.

Lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness. Synonym: pallid. "Pale prose with the faint sweetness of lavender" , "A pallid performance"

4.

Abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress. Synonyms: pallid, wan. "Her wan face suddenly flushed"

5.

Not full or rich.

noun

1.

A wooden strip forming part of a fence. Synonym: picket.

verb

(past & past part. paled; pres. part. paling)

1.

Turn pale, as if in fear. Synonyms: blanch, blench.

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"Pale" Quotes from Famous Books

... Campanula is C. fragilis, of trailing habit. The starry pale blue flowers are seen to most advantage in hanging-baskets. The charm of these flowers is wholly lost if they are placed on a stage in the greenhouse; and they are not entirely satisfactory in a window where the light is transmitted through ...

— The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots, 16th Edition • Sutton and Sons

... river of mneme as a counterpart of the river lethe, my cup of coffee must have got its water from that stream of memory. If I could borrow that eloquence of Jouffroy which made his hearers turn pale, I might bring up before my readers a long array of pallid ghosts, whom these walls knew well in their earthly habiliments. Only a single one of those I met here still survives. The rest are mostly well-nigh forgotten by all but a few friends, or remembered chiefly in their children ...

— Our Hundred Days in Europe • Oliver Wendell Holmes

... history of Melrose and the popular tales connected with it. He pointed out many pieces of beautiful sculpture in obscure corners which would have escaped our notice. The Abbey has been built of a pale red stone; that part which was first erected of a very durable kind, the sculptured flowers and leaves and other minute ornaments being as perfect in many places as when first wrought. The ruin is of considerable extent, but unfortunately it ...

— Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 • Dorothy Wordsworth

... the sweetness of the female countenance. His delineation of the naked is excellent, as compared with the works of his predecessors, but far unequal to what he attained in his later years,—the drapery, on the contrary, is noble, majestic, and statuesque; the coloring is still pale and weak,—it was long ere he improved in this point; the landscape displays little or no amendment upon the Byzantine; the architecture, that of the fourteenth century, is to the figures that people it in the proportion of dolls' houses to the ...

— On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) - A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature • John Ruskin

... healthful, and hopeful, without deep sorrows or the stings of conscience, may do. In the strange freaks of a half-sleeping fancy, in his dreams, he remembered to have heard the screech of a wild animal, and to have seen the face of Julia Markham, pale with the mingled expression of courage ...

— Bart Ridgeley - A Story of Northern Ohio • A. G. Riddle

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