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pale sb.1 (3 see PALE sb.2).
1. pl. palings, palisade H8 V. iv. 96.
2. fence, paling Err. II. i. 100 “But, too unruly deer, he breaks the ,” R2 III. iv. 40, Troil. II. iii. 263, Ham. I. iv. 28 (fig.) “the pales and forts of reason.”
3. fenced area, enclosure; fig. Wint. IV. ii. [iii.] 4* “the red blood reigns in the winter's pale.”
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    • William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, 4.2
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