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
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- 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.
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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.
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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.
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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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