A pale is:
- a wooden stake used with others to make a fence - from Old French pal, from Latin palus ‘stake’[1]
- a boundary[1]
- an area within set boundaries[1] a territory or jurisdiction (possibly non-territorial) under a given authority, or the limits of such a jurisdiction. The term was often used in cases where the territory or jurisdiction outside the pale was considered hostile.
2 comments:
Huh. Just when I thought I knew what a common four-letter word meant...
Great concept, cool illustration (literally!).
Nice working of the concept. Cool!!
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