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It means a pale colour that is closer to white (either closer to white than it was before, or closer to white than some other colour that is used as a comparison*). * In fact, in the song it is the former, since the couplet is "her face, at first just ghostly / turned a whiter shade of pale".
- It means a pale colour that is closer to white (either closer to white than it was before, or closer to white than some other colour that is used as a comparison*).
- * In fact, in the song it is the former, since the couplet is "her face, at first just ghostly / turned a whiter shade of pale".
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It means a pale colour that is closer to white (either closer to white than it was before, or closer to white than some other colour that is used as a comparison*).
* In fact, in the song it is the former, since the couplet is "her face, at first just ghostly / turned a whiter shade of pale".
* In fact, in the song it is the former, since the couplet is "her face, at first just ghostly / turned a whiter shade of pale".
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And so it was that later
As the miller told his tale
That her face, at first just ghostly,
Turned a whiter shade of pale
You are said to turn white when you hear something shocking or upsetting, and so the lines would suggest that her face was already pale, and then got paler in response to a shock. The reference to the miller telling a tale may be a reference to the Miller
As the miller told his tale
That her face, at first just ghostly,
Turned a whiter shade of pale
You are said to turn white when you hear something shocking or upsetting, and so the lines would suggest that her face was already pale, and then got paler in response to a shock. The reference to the miller telling a tale may be a reference to the Miller
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