PALE

n. 1 paling, palisade, picket, upright, post, stake The pales are attached to horizontal rails to form a fence 2 boundary, limit(s), restriction, bounds, border(s), confines Nothing is outside the pale of the imagination of a great novelist 3 beyond the pale. improper, irregular, unseemly, unsuitable, indecent, unacceptable, inadmissible, forbidden, anathema, disallowed, prohibited, verboten, interdicted; US unusual, bizarre, peculiar, outré, weird, abnormal, strange The committee have found your behaviour to be beyond the pale, Frances, and we demand your resignation