Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Slightly pale.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Somewhat pale or wan: as, a palish blue.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Somewhat pale or wan.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective somewhat
pale
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- adjective slightly pale
Etymologies
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Examples
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I saw the moon, only as a swaying trail of palish fire, that varied from a mere line of light to a nebulous path, and then dwindled again, disappearing periodically.
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An efflorescence of a palish red colour soon appeared about the parts where the matter was inserted, and spread itself rather extensively, but died away in a few days without producing any variolous symptoms.
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His nose changed from the natural copper hue which it had acquired from many a comfortable cup of claret or sack, into a palish brassy tint, and his teeth chattered with apprehension at the unveiled audacity of my proposal, which seemed to place the barefaced plunderer before him in full atrocity.
Rob Roy 2005
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An efflorescence of a palish red colour soon appeared about the parts where the matter was inserted, and spread itself rather extensively, but died away in a few days without producing any variolous symptoms. 6 She has since been repeatedly employed as a nurse to smallpox patients, without experiencing any ill consequences.
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At their first appearance they are commonly of a palish blue, or rather of a colour somewhat approaching to livid, and are surrounded by an erysipelatous inflammation.
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At their first appearance they are commonly of a palish blue, or rather of a colour somewhat approaching to livid, and are surrounded by an erysipelatous inflammation.
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‘Madam, I am of your opinion,’ says the second; ‘I think her face has a palish cast too much on the delicate order.’
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The commissaris had never seen a pink, or a yellow, or a palish-green gable house before.
Tumbleweed Van de Wetering, Janwillem 1976
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He glanced swiftly around him like one half afraid, and Gertie saw he looked palish, as if he had been sick or some time indoors.
The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954
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Head somewhat irregular in shape, broad at the base, and terminating in rather a sharp point; color palish-green, the ribs and nerves of the leaves paler.
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