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paling
/ ˈpeɪlɪŋ /
noun
- a fence made of pales
- pales collectively
- a single pale
- the act of erecting pales
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Example Sentences
Soon the balloon, taking an oblique ascent, hovered over the darkened landscape, and the paling lights also disappeared.
Richard danced till the morn was paling, despite two great welts on his forehead.
Towards the end of May, one lovely evening, we happened both to be out on opposite sides of the paling, both walking slowly.
In one corner lay a heap of wood, apparently part of an old paling.
Alternately flushing and paling, Xenie stared at him, still clasping the little child to her wildly beating heart.
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