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单词 pale-dead
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pale-dead
pale-dead adj. [possibly a co-occurrence of independent adjectives (as probably in quot. 1591 and more recent instances), mistakenly hyphenated; the compound would be expected to mean ‘dead in a pale way’] Obsolete (perhaps) having a pallor reminiscent or characteristic of death.
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1591 A. Fraunce tr. Psalmes xxxviii, in Countesse of Pembrokes Emanuel sig. D4v My pain's soe greeuous, my griefe soe greate, that it vrgeth Mee wyth a pale dead face.]
1597 T. Middleton Wisdome of Solomon Paraphr. 447 Are you clad in beauty's veil, or in destruction's pale-dead livery?
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iv. ii. 48 The gumme downe roping from their pale-dead eyes, And in their pale dull mouthes the Iymold Bitt Lyes foule with chaw'd-grasse.
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