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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 597 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PALE (through Fr. See also:pal, from See also:Lat. palms, a stake, for paglus, from the See also:stem pag- of pangere, to See also:fix; " See also:pole " is from the same See also:original source)  , a stake, particularly one of a closely set See also:series driven into the ground to See also:form the defensive See also:work known as a " palisade "; also one of the lighter laths or strips of See also:wood set vertically and fastened to a See also:horizontal See also:rail to form a " paling." Used as an See also:historical See also:term, a See also:pale is a See also:district marked off from the surrounding See also:country by a different See also:system of See also:government and See also:law or by definite boundaries . The best known of these districts was the " See also:English Pale " in See also:Ireland, dating from the reign of See also:Henry II., although the word " pale " was not used in this connexion until the latter See also:part of the 14th See also:century . The Pale varied considerably, according to the strength or weakness of the English authorities, and in the See also:time of Henry VIII. was bounded by a See also:line drawls from See also:Dundalk to See also:Kells, thence to Naas, and from Naas E. to See also:Dalkey, embracing, that is, part of the See also:modern counties of See also:Dublin, See also:Louth, See also:Meath, and See also:Kildare . The Pale existed until the See also:complete subjugation of Ireland under See also:Elizabeth; the use of the word is frequent in Tudor times . There was an " English Pale " or " See also:Calais Pale " also in See also:France until 1558, extending from See also:Gravelines to Wissant, and for a See also:short time under the Tudors an English Pale in See also:Scotland . In See also:heraldry a " pale " is a See also:band placed vertically in the centre of a See also:shield, hence " in pale " or " to impale " is used of the marshalling of two coats See also:side by side on a shield divided vertically . ' Pale," in the sense of colourless, whitish, of a shade of See also:colour lighter than the normal, is derived through O . Fr. palle, mod. pale, from See also:Lat. pallidus, pallor, pallere; and in that of a See also:baker's See also:shovel, or " See also:peel " as it is sometimes called, from Lat . Pala, See also:spade, probably connected with the See also:root of pandere, to spread out .

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