paly

The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | 199 words | Copyright

paly in heraldry, divided into equal vertical stripes. Recorded from late Middle English, the word comes from Old French pale ‘divided by stakes’, from pal ‘pale, stake’.

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