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Palest

Pale \Pale\ (p[=a]l), a. [Compar. Paler (p[=a]l"[~e]r); superl. Palest.] [F. p[^a]le, fr. p[^a]lir to turn pale, L. pallere to be or look pale. Cf. Appall, Fallow, pall, v. i., Pallid.]

  1. Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue. ``Pale as a forpined ghost.''
    --Chaucer.

    Speechless he stood and pale.
    --Milton.

    They are not of complexion red or pale.
    --T. Randolph.

  2. Not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or hue; dim; as, the pale light of the moon.

    The night, methinks, is but the daylight sick; It looks a little paler.
    --Shak.

    Note: Pale is often used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, pale-colored, pale-eyed, pale-faced, pale-looking, etc.

Wiktionary
palest
  1. (en-superlative of: pale) v

  2. (en-archaic second-person singular of: pale)

Usage examples of "palest".

Instead, looking enchanting in the palest green, she was in a modest landaulet parked in the shade of a large tree.

Through that palest lavendar, Naitachal could see the filial: a diamond the size of his fist.

Heather, slipped away, a vision in palest turquoise muslin, her golden curls dressed high.

She was tall, brown as leather yet smooth as oil, with hair the color of the palest wine and eyes dark as thun-derheads.

Just aft of the sternrail, two iron posts as delicately curved as the horns of a cricket lifted many-faceted lanterns, one of palest red, the other viridescent as moonlight.

Ivory of skin were they, their locks of pure white silk framing grave faces and eyes of palest blue.

By comparison to this busy overabundance the polished floor seemed austere, parquetried as it was with wood every shade of brown between palest blond and burnt umber.

There was one little girl among them who always wore a necklace of perfect pearls that shimmered palest pastel green.

It gleamed like amethyst, washing the scene behind it of sea and night sky with a brush of palest violet.

She was even more beautiful now, the palest rose color in her cheeks, her hair washed and clean and as fine as the tawny stands of wheat under the summer sun.

Such colours, bronze dappled with gold, swirls of palest green and turquoise, rainbow lines threading up towards thunderous purple chasms thousands of feet above their heads.

She reached up and threw back her cloak, revealing a light silken gown of palest blue.

The blue of his eyes had gone gray in the dim light, but his hair shone like palest gold around his head.

The black was rising, was writhing back up to them in whirling drifts and eddies, in every shade from palest gray to black.

Her forehead was broad, but whether it was low I could not tell, for it was coifed with braids of palest gold, and there were little ends of hair that curled up all over her head, and they were so fine and silken that the light in the hall shining through them made a queer silver-gilt aureole around her head.