What is a Pale?
Nov. 2nd, 2018 11:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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You don't hear this term much anymore. But it survives in the phrase "beyond the pale." Today, this means that someone's behavior has crossed a line of acceptability. But back in the day, it meant they'd gone past a territorial fence of sharpened spikes.
Rough grunge pointed logs of an ancient pale fencing or palisade against the background of cloudy sky.
You don't hear this term much anymore. But it survives in the phrase "beyond the pale." Today, this means that someone's behavior has crossed a line of acceptability. But back in the day, it meant they'd gone past a territorial fence of sharpened spikes.
Rough grunge pointed logs of an ancient pale fencing or palisade against the background of cloudy sky.
