Unacceptable, outside the rules of society, morality, etc. The noun “pale,” from the Latin palum, meant a stake of the kind used to make fences, or a fence made of such stakes. By extension it came to mean the limits designated by a fence, at first literally and then figuratively. In the fourteenth century the English Pale was a name given to the part of Ireland then under English rule and therefore within the bounds of civilization (as
perceived by the English). There was a similar pale around Calais. More fig-
uratively still, the English printer William Caxton wrote in 1483, “The
abbot and 21 monks went for to dwelle in deserte for to kepe more strayte-
lye the profession of theyr pale.” Three centuries later and three thousand
miles away, Thomas Jefferson referred to “within the pale of their own
laws.”
The Fexco 2024 concludes by breaking records in visits and economic
activity.
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The International Fair and Exhibition of Cochabamba (Fexco) concluded
yesterday after 11 days of constant and intense activity. Preliminary
figures indi...
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