paly

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪli/
• Rhymes: -eɪli

Compare French palé. See pale (“a stake”).

paly (not comparable)

1. (heraldry) Palewise; vertically striped.

From pale +‎ -y.

paly (comparative more paly, superlative most paly)

1. (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, [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

• play, pyla, PLAY