English

Adjective

palest

1. superlative form of pale: most pale
   • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 29686887 , chapter IV:

     So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

Verb

palest

1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of pale
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 36

     “[…] Who’s over me? Truth hath no confines. Take off thine eye! more intolerable than fiends’ glarings is a doltish stare! So, so; thou reddenest and palest; my heat has melted thee to anger-glow. But look ye, Starbuck, what is said in heat, that thing unsays itself. […]”

Anagrams

• pastel
• petals
• plates
• pleats
• septal
• staple
• tepals