Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Archaic Pale.
- adj. Heraldry Divided into several equal parts by perpendicular lines. Used of a field.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In heraldry, divided into four or more equal parts by perpendicular lines: as, paly of six argent and gules. There should always be an even number of parts. Also
palewise . See also cut underborder . - Pale; wanting color.
- n. Same as pale, 1.
- n. A roll of bran such as is given to hounds.
Wiktionary
- adj. heraldry vertically striped
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Poetic Pale; wanting color; dim.
- adj. (Her.) Divided into four or more equal parts by perpendicular lines, and of two different tinctures disposed alternately.
Etymologies
- Compare French palé. See pale a stake. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old French pale, from pal, stake; see pale1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Your paly was a lvl 11 fighting, of all things, a dracolich?”
“Now and then the moon, then in her second quarter, would show her disc for an instant, but be quickly obscured; or a star of "paly" light peep out, and also disappear.”
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 275, September 29, 1827
“But she also spoke of her joy in performing it, of her favorite laugh lines, and the wonderful sense of company that the paly created in each cast.”
“Also we are telling the world we don't paly by rules.”
“Ave-not for both Senators to return to their posts-Let it paly out!”
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“This is really jsut a manefistation of a corrupt Godless nation that seems to be hell bent on allowing this made for TV insanity to paly out everyday.”
“Some weekends we all just huddle on the rug next to the semi-permanent pile we keep in the living room, and just parallel paly for hours on end.”
“I am not surprised that Sam thinks so little of himself, I've kind of seen Jared paly that out all season long.”
“Paint adn Mezzo no can paly aotsied adn luk fur coonses.”
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“In fact it was expected that Sakib Al Hassan would get the chance to paly in IPL.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘paly’.
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words you have probably never heard o...
a list of words.
brabejum, braccate, braccial, bo'zal, brachiate, brachis'tochrone, brail, bran'card, bran'chiobdel'la, brassica, brasenia, euclase and 97 more...
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stripes and bands
variegated armadillos and other asundry bands and stripes
fajada, raye, apar, fasciated, hemigalus, numbat, onyx, tatouay, tortrix, coquina, peba, myrmecobius and 113 more...
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beyond pale
Words meaning or invoking the different aspects of pale.
Not just colour, but also the ideas of impermanence, illness, weakness. (Just not the two noun forms – a thin strip of metal or woo...pale, pallid, wan, light, misty, ethereal, cream, dim, white, thin, waning, colourless and 62 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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List of Heraldry Terms
Words and phrases used in blazoning heraldic devices, along with names and other terms associated with the art and science.
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Heraldry
azure, gules, sable, vert, purpure, or, argent, ermine, vair, charge, ordinary, cross and 118 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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W.E.L.D.E.R.
réchauffé, gast, dere, heller, arête, wair, tut, shad, tipi, emeu, codon, unco and 65 more...
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