Pale vs. Pall — What's the Difference?

Light in colour or shade; containing little colour or pigment

A cover for a coffin, bier, or tomb, often made of black, purple, or white velvet.

Inferior or unimpressive

A coffin, especially one being carried to a grave or tomb.

Become pale in one's face from shock or fear

A covering that darkens or obscures

Seem or become less important

A gloomy effect or atmosphere

A wooden stake or post used with others to form a fence.

A linen cloth or a square of cardboard faced with cloth used to cover the chalice.

An area within determined bounds, or subject to a particular jurisdiction.

See pallium.

A broad vertical stripe down the middle of a shield.

To cover with or as if with a pall.

A stake or pointed stick; a picket.

To become insipid, boring, or wearisome.

A fence enclosing an area.

To have a dulling, wearisome, or boring effect.

The area enclosed by a fence or boundary.

To become cloyed or satiated.

A region or district lying within an imposed boundary or constituting a separate jurisdiction.

To cloy; satiate.

Pale The medieval dominions of the English in Ireland. Used with the.

To make vapid or wearisome.

(Heraldry) A wide vertical band in the center of an escutcheon.

Senses relating to cloth.

To enclose with pales; fence in.

Fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes.

To cause to turn pale.

A heavy cloth laid over a coffin or tomb; a shroud laid over a corpse.

To become pale; blanch

(Christianity) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side, used to cover the chalice during the Eucharist.

To decrease in relative importance.

A cloth used for various purposes on the altar in a church, such as a placed]] or drapery covering the front of an altar.

Whitish in complexion; pallid.

Senses relating to clothing.

Of a low intensity of color; light.

(archaic) An outer garment; a cloak, mantle, or robe.

Having high lightness and low saturation.

(figuratively) Something that covers or surrounds like a cloak; in particular, a cloud of dust, smoke, etc., or a feeling of fear, gloom, or suspicion.

Of a low intensity of light; dim or faint

(Christianity) Especially in Roman Catholicism: a worn]] over the chasuble.

Feeble; weak

(heraldic charge) A charge representing an archbishop's pallium, having the form of the letter Y charged with crosses.

Light in color.

A feeling of nausea caused by disgust or overindulgence.

(of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).

(transitive) To cloak or cover with, or as if with, a pall.

Feeble, faint.

(transitive) To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull, to weaken.

(intransitive) To turn pale; to lose colour.

(intransitive) To become dull, insipid, tasteless, or vapid; to lose life, spirit, strength, or taste.

(intransitive) To become insignificant.

Same as Pawl.

(transitive) To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.

An outer garment; a cloak mantle.

To enclose with pales, or as if with pales; to encircle or encompass; to fence off.

A kind of rich stuff used for garments in the Middle Ages.

(obsolete) Paleness; pallor.

Same as Pallium.

A wooden stake; a picket.

A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y.

(archaic) Fence made from wooden stake; palisade.

A large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb.

(by extension) Limits, bounds (especially before of).

A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side; - used to put over the chalice.

The bounds of morality, good behaviour or judgment in civilized company, in the phrase beyond the pale.

Nausea.

(heraldry) A vertical band down the middle of a shield.

To cloak.

(archaic) A territory or defensive area within a specific boundary or under a given jurisdiction.

To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste; as, the liquor palls.

(historical) The parts of Ireland under English jurisdiction.

To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken.

(historical) The territory around Calais under English control (from the 14th to 16th centuries).

To satiate; to cloy; as, to pall the appetite.

(historical) A portion of Russia in which Jews were permitted to live.

A sudden numbing dread

(archaic) The jurisdiction (territorial or otherwise) of an authority.

Burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped

A cheese scoop.

Hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)

Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue.

Become less interesting or attractive

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

Cause to lose courage;

Paleness; pallor.

Cover with a pall

A pointed stake or slat, either driven into the ground, or fastened to a rail at the top and bottom, for fencing or inclosing; a picket.

Cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing;

That which incloses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a fence; a palisade.

Cause to become flat;

A space or field having bounds or limits; a limited region or place; an inclosure; - often used figuratively.

Lose sparkle or bouquet;

A region within specified bounds, whether or not enclosed or demarcated.

Lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to);

A stripe or band, as on a garment.

Get tired of something or somebody

One of the greater ordinaries, being a broad perpendicular stripe in an escutcheon, equally distant from the two edges, and occupying one third of it.

A cheese scoop.

A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.

To turn pale; to lose color or luster.

To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.

To inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to encompass; to fence off.

A wooden strip forming part of a fence

Turn pale, as if in fear

Very light colored; highly diluted with white;

(of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble;

Lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness;

Abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress;

Not full or rich;