Pale

Pale may refer to:

Color

• Pale, an adjective meaning of a light shade or hue; approaching white
• Paleness (color), a relative lightness of color
• Pale, a variance of human skin color, especially:
  • Pallor, a symptom of low oxygen content in blood or avoidance of sunlight

Historical pales

• The Pale, or the English Pale, English crown territory in Ireland from the 13th to the 16th centuries
• Pale of Calais, English territory in France, 1360 – 1558
• Pale of Settlement, area of restricted Jewish settlement in the western Russian Empire, 1791 – 1917
• The Chinese Pale, the area of Han Chinese settlement in Liaoning, bounded in the early Qing dynasty by the Inner Willow Palisade

River

• Pale River, Estonia

Towns

• Pale, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Pale, Goa, India
• Palé, a town in Guinea
• Pale, historic town in Kefalonia, today part of Lixouri

Music

• Pale (album), a 1990 release of Toad the Wet Sprocket
• The Pale (band), an Irish band formed in 1990
• The Pale, renamed The Pale Pacific, an American indie rock band

Other

• Pale (heraldry), a vertical mark running down the center of a flag or shield
• Pale (Greyhawk), the Theocracy of the Pale, a fictional nation in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game
• Greek name for ancient Greek wrestling
• A picket or stake

See also

• Pail or bucket