pale
noun/peɪl/
/peɪl/
Word Originnoun Middle English: from Old French pal, from Latin palus ‘stake’.
Idioms Idioms
See pale in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarybeyond the pale
- considered by most people to be unacceptable or unreasonable
- His remarks were clearly beyond the pale.
- She has put herself beyond the pale (= behaved in a way that is not acceptable).
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