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"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ɣia",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "ღია"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "mḳrtali",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "მკრთალი"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "baci",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "ბაცი"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "hell"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "blass"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "chlomós",
"sense": "light in color",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "χλωμός"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "ochrós",
"sense": "light in color",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ωχρός"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "ōkhrós",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "ὠχρός"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "gn",
"lang": "Guaraní",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "kangy"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "heveir",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "חור"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "mba",
"lang": "Higaonon",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "luspad"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "halvány"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "világos"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "fölur"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "pucat"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "kelmiä"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "blednoi"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "veretöin"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "pallido"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "smorto"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"alt": "あおざめた",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "aozameta",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "青ざめた"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "changbaekhan",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "창백한"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "ltg",
"lang": "Latgalian",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "buolgs"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "pallidus"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "bāls"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "bled",
"sense": "light in color",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "блед"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "mg",
"lang": "Malagasy",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "fotsy"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "pucat"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "tihaere"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "kōmā"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "kōtea"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "teatea"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "mi",
"english": "referring to complexion",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "kiritea"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "horotea"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "mi",
"english": "referring to skin",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "tūrehu"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "hina"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "taitea"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "mōtea"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "light in color",
"tags": [
"Jersey"
],
"word": "bliême"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "light in color",
"tags": [
"Jersey"
],
"word": "pale"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "blek"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "bleik"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "blāc"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "کم رنگ"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "blauss"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "blady"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "biały"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "pálido"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "claro"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "pal"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "palid"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "blédnyj",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "бле́дный"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "bled"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "bledý"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "dsb",
"lang": "Lower Sorbian",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "blědy"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "alt",
"lang": "Southern Altai",
"roman": "kuba",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "куба"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "pálido"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "blek"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "maputla"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "sîit",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "ซีด"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "jaang",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "จาง"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "blidýj",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "бліди́й"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "tái"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "paelik"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "light in color",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "clair"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "gwelw"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "mww",
"lang": "White Hmong",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "nhạt"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "mww",
"lang": "White Hmong",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "lợt"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "sah",
"lang": "Yakut",
"roman": "ceñkir",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "чэҥкир"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4 0",
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "bleykh",
"sense": "light in color",
"word": "בלייך"
}
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"text": "His face turned pale after hearing about his mother's death.",
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{
"ref": "1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:",
"text": "Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"(of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.)."
],
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"_dis1": "2 89 9",
"code": "bcl",
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"sense": "having a pallor, of human skin",
"word": "malungsi"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 89 9",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "bled",
"sense": "having a pallor, of human skin",
"word": "блед"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 89 9",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "having a pallor, of human skin",
"word": "bledý"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 89 9",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "having a pallor, of human skin",
"word": "pâle"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 89 9",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "mḳrtali",
"sense": "having a pallor, of human skin",
"word": "მკრთალი"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 89 9",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "permḳrtali",
"sense": "having a pallor, of human skin",
"word": "ფერმკრთალი"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 89 9",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "having a pallor, of human skin",
"word": "blass"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 89 9",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "having a pallor, of human skin",
"word": "bleich"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 89 9",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "having a pallor, of human skin",
"word": "fahl"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 89 9",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "having a pallor, of human skin",
"word": "sápadt"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 89 9",
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "having a pallor, of human skin",
"word": "blednoi"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 89 9",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "having a pallor, of human skin",
"word": "smorto"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 89 9",
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"word": "pallidus"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 89 9",
"code": "mi",
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"sense": "having a pallor, of human skin",
"word": "kōmā"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 89 9",
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"word": "blāc"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 89 9",
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
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"word": "blauss"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 89 9",
"code": "pl",
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"sense": "having a pallor, of human skin",
"word": "blady"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 89 9",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "having a pallor, of human skin",
"word": "biały"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 89 9",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pálida"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 89 9",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "having a pallor, of human skin",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "branca"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 89 9",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
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"word": "pálido"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 89 9",
"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "having a pallor, of human skin",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "påle"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 89 9",
"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "having a pallor, of human skin",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bladje"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 89 9",
"code": "wa",
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}
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"text": "He is but a pale shadow of his former self.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "The son's clumsy paintings are a pale imitation of his father's.",
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}
],
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"Feeble, faint."
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"_dis1": "0 1 99",
"code": "arz",
"lang": "Arabic",
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"sense": "feeble, faint",
"tags": [
"Egyptian-Arabic"
],
"word": "مسخسخ"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 99",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "feeble, faint",
"word": "blady"
}
]
}
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"Received-Pronunciation"
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"Received-Pronunciation"
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],
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"_dis1": "0 0 0",
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"ref": "1856, Elizabeth Browning, Aurora Leigh, New York: C. S. Francis & Co., published 1857, page 282:",
"text": "But a man— / Note men !—they are but women after all, / As women are but Auroras !—there are men / Born tender, apt to pale at a trodden worm, / Who paint for pastime, in their favourite dream, / Spruce auto-vestments flowered with crocus-flames / There are, too, who believe in hell and lie : […]",
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{
"ref": "1959 May, “Talking of Trains: \"Rail-rovers\" again”, in Trains Illustrated, page 236:",
"text": "(Although the conditions are rather different, the generosity of the offer certainly pales by comparison with the \"Eurailpass\" now available to tourists from North and South America at $125 (£44 13s.), which allows two months' unlimited first class travel throughout the railway systems of thirteen countries—[...].)",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "2006 September 14, Katie Hafner, “Philanthropy Google’s Way: Not the Usual”, in The New York Times:",
"text": "Its financing pales next to the tens of billions that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will have at its disposal, especially with the coming infusion of some $3 billion a year from Warren E. Buffett, the founder of Berkshire Hathaway.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"text": "12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift\nThe matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon, lolling around on territory that’s already been settled."
}
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"ref": "1645, John Milton, Il Penseroso, in The Poetical Works of Milton, volume II, Edinburgh: Sands, Murray, and Cochran, published 1755, p. 151, lines 155–160",
"text": "But let my due feet never fail, / To walk the ſtudious cloyſters pale, / And love the high embowed roof, / With antic pillars maſſy proof, / And ſtoried windows richly dight, / Caſting a dim religious light."
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"code": "ka",
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"code": "ka",
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"code": "de",
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"code": "izh",
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"code": "it",
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"code": "pt",
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"code": "sh",
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"code": "th",
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"code": "th",
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"code": "uk",
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"code": "vi",
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"sense": "wooden stake",
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"sense": "wooden stake",
"word": "paliso"
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"sense": "wooden stake",
"word": "paalu"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "wooden stake",
"word": "seiväs"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "wooden stake",
"tags": [
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"sense": "wooden stake",
"tags": [
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"word": "πάσσαλος"
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{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
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"sense": "wooden stake",
"tags": [
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{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "wooden stake",
"word": "paliso"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "wooden stake",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "palo"
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{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "wooden stake",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "påle"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "wooden stake",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pæl"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "wooden stake",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pal"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "wooden stake",
"tags": [
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"word": "sztacheta"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "wooden stake",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pau"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "wooden stake",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "poste"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kol",
"sense": "wooden stake",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "кол"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "štakét",
"sense": "wooden stake",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "штаке́т"
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "štaxét",
"sense": "wooden stake",
"tags": [
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"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
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"sense": "fence made of wooden stakes",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "частакол"
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{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "tyn",
"sense": "fence made of wooden stakes",
"tags": [
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "ograda ot kolove",
"sense": "fence made of wooden stakes",
"word": "ограда от колове"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "fence made of wooden stakes",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "palissade"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "fence made of wooden stakes",
"word": "paaluaita"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "fence made of wooden stakes",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "paliçada"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "fence made of wooden stakes",
"word": "частокол"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "predeli",
"sense": "limits, bounds",
"tags": [
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{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "limits, bounds",
"tags": [
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"word": "limiet"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "limits, bounds",
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "limits, bounds",
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{
"code": "fi",
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"word": "moraalin rajat"
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"word": "pal"
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{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "heraldry: vertical band",
"word": "kůl"
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{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "heraldry: vertical band",
"word": "paal"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "heraldry: vertical band",
"word": "halkio"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "heraldry: vertical band",
"word": "paalu"
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"word": "pal"
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{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "heraldry: vertical band",
"word": "Pfahl"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "heraldry: vertical band",
"word": "cölöp"
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{
"code": "ga",
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"sense": "heraldry: vertical band",
"tags": [
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"word": "cuaille"
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{
"code": "it",
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{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"sense": "heraldry: vertical band",
"word": "ペイル"
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"sense": "heraldry: vertical band",
"word": "stolpe"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "heraldry: vertical band",
"word": "słup"
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"code": "pt",
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
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"word": "palo"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "defensive area held in another country",
"word": "tukikohta"
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{
"code": "fi",
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"word": "pallescent"
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"ref": "1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:",
"text": "[…] your iſle, which ſtands / As Neptunes Parke, ribb’d, and pal’d in / With Oakes vnſkaleable, and roaring Waters, / With Sands that will not bear your Enemies Boates, / But ſuck them vp to th’ Top-maſt.",
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