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PALE (through Fr. pal, from Lat. palms, a stake, for paglus, from the stem pag- of pangere, to fix; " pole " is from the same original source)

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 597 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PAI-PAS
PALE (through Fr. pal, from Lat. palms, a stake, for paglus, from the stem pag- of pangere, to fix; " pole " is from the same 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.


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