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pale

/peɪl/ adjective B1
  1. Light in color. · I have pale yellow wallpaper.· She had pale skin because she didn't get much sunlight.
  2. Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.). · His face turned pale after hearing about his mother's death.
  3. Feeble, faint. · He is but a pale shadow of his former self.· The son's clumsy paintings are a pale imitation of his father's.

Comparative paler · Superlative palest

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The old man uttered a cry, and turned round; then, seeing his son, he fell into his arms, pale and trembling.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 12 · C1
“What, no wine?” said Dantès, turning pale, and looking alternately at the hollow cheeks of the old man and the empty cupboards.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 14 · C1
As Danglars approached the disappointed lover, he cast on him a look of deep meaning, while Fernand, as he slowly paced behind the happy pair, who seemed, in their own unmixed content, to have entirely forgotten that such a being as himself existed, was pale and abstracted; occasionally, however, a deep flush would overspread his countenance, and a nervous contraction distort his features, while, with an agitated and restless gaze, he would glance in the direction of Marseilles, like one who either anticipated or foresaw some great and important event.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 23 · C1
“Father,” said Mercédès, stopping when she had reached the centre of the table, “sit, I pray you, on my right hand; on my left I will place him who has ever been as a brother to me,” pointing with a soft and gentle smile to Fernand; but her words and look seemed to inflict the direst torture on him, for his lips became ghastly pale, and even beneath the dark hue of his complexion the blood might be seen retreating as though some sudden pang drove it back to the heart.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 24 · C1

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