(historical) The territory around Calais under English control (from the 14th to 16th centuries).
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He knows the fortifications – crumbling – and beyond the city walls the lands of the Pale, its woods, villages and marshes, its sluices, dykes and canals.
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2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate, published 2010, page 402:
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A low-lying, marshy enclave stretching eighteen miles along the coast and pushing some eight to ten miles inland, the Pale of Calais nestled between French Picardy to the west and, to the east, the imperial-dominated territories of Flanders.
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2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 73: