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paling

[ pey-ling ]

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noun

Also called paling fence. picket fence.
a pale or picket for a fence.
pales pale collectively.
the act of building a fence with pales. pale.

paling

/ ˈ��ɪ��ɪŋ /

noun

a fence made of pales
pales collectively
a single pale
the act of erecting pales

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Word History and Origins

Origin of paling¹

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; pale ², -ing ¹

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He looked at Anya, face paling, then back at the torchbearer.

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��, you might ask, prompted this remark from the paling former personality?

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No medicine is risk-free, but complications are rare and most are not serious, paling in comparison with the potential harm caused by Covid, even to younger people.

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I absolutely must go in by myself, though I hate being stuck up in the barouche-landau without a companion; but Augusta, I believe, with her own good-will, would never stir beyond the park paling.’

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“Yes, well, I meant, ah, more for personal emergencies,” Gwystyl explained, paling.

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palindrome palingenesis

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