Pale

French Meaning

pâle

blême

blafard

blond

pâlir

blêmir

devenir blême

palissade

pieu

comportement inacceptable

English Meaning

  1. A stake or pointed stick; a picket.
  2. A fence enclosing an area.
  3. The area enclosed by a fence or boundary.
  4. A region or district lying within an imposed boundary or constituting a separate jurisdiction.
  5. The medieval dominions of the English in Ireland. Used with the.
  6. Heraldry A wide vertical band in the center of an escutcheon.
  7. To enclose with pales; fence in.
  8. beyond the pale Irrevocably unacceptable or unreasonable: behavior that was quite beyond the pale.
  9. Whitish in complexion; pallid.
  10. Of a low intensity of color; light.
  11. Having high lightness and low saturation.
  12. Of a low intensity of light; dim or faint: "a late afternoon sun coming through the el tracks and falling in pale oblongs on the cracked, empty sidewalks” ( Jimmy Breslin).
  13. Feeble; weak: a pale rendition of the aria.
  14. To cause to turn pale.
  15. To become pale; blanch: paled with fright.
  16. To decrease in relative importance.