paly
See also: pały
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpeɪli/
Etymology 1
Compare French palé. See pale (“a stake”).
Adjective
paly (not comparable)
- (heraldry) vertically striped
Etymology 2
pale + -y
Adjective
paly (comparative more paly, superlative most paly)
- (obsolete) pale; lacking colour
- 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii], line 141:
- Fain would I go to chafe his paly lips
With twenty thousand kisses,
- c. 1857-1873, John Greenleaf Whittier, "The Reformer"
- Young Romance raised his dreamy eyes,
With that deep insight which detects
O'erhung with paly locks of gold
- Young Romance raised his dreamy eyes,
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Anagrams
- play, pyla