PALE (through Fr.

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• PAL, KRISTO DAS (1839–1884)

pal, from

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• LAT

Lat. palms, a stake, for paglus, from the

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• STEM (O. Eng. staefn, stemn, cf. Du. stain, Ger. Stamm, &c., probably related to " staff ")

stem pag- of pangere, to

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• FIX, THEODORE (180o-1846)

fix; "

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• POLE (FAMILY)
• POLE, REGINALD (1500-1558)
• POLE, RICHARD DE LA (d. 1525)
• POLE, WILLIAM (1814—1900)

pole " is from the same

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• ORIGINAL

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