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Proper noun
the English pale
- (historical) The town of Calais and its surroundings under English rule, from 1347 to 1558.
c. 1541, The Chronicle of Calais, London, published 1846:The xviij. of June came v c. Almayns out of Flandars into the Englyshe pale, and there taried the kyng's comynge.
2008, David Grummitt, The Calais Garrison, page 5:In 1450 the English Pale stretched eighteen miles from near Wissant in Picardy to Gravelines in Flanders.
- (historical) The parts of Ireland under English jurisdiction.