pale vs sit-down

pale

noun
  • A wooden stake; a picket. 

  • Limits, bounds (especially before of). 

  • A vertical band down the middle of a shield. 

  • A cheese scoop. 

  • The bounds of morality, good behaviour or judgment in civilized company, in the phrase beyond the pale. 

verb
  • To make pale; to diminish the brightness of. 

  • To turn pale; to lose colour. 

  • To enclose with pales, or as if with pales; to encircle or encompass; to fence off. 

  • To become insignificant. 

adj
  • Feeble, faint. 

  • Light in color. 

  • Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.). 

sit-down

noun
  • A sit-in, a protest of civil disobedience by people sitting and refusing to move. 

  • An act of sitting down, especially with other people in some form of social exchange. 

adj
  • Intended to be done, used, consumed etc. while sitting. 

How often have the words pale and sit-down occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )