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Webster 1913 Edition


Palewise

Pale′wiseˊ

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adv.
(Her.)
In the manner of a pale or pales; by perpendicular lines or divisions;
as, to divide an escutcheon
palewise
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Definition 2024


palewise

palewise

English

Adverb

palewise (not comparable)

  1. (heraldry, archaic) In the manner of pales, divided by perpendicular lines.
    • 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.120:
      Sheer limestone cliffs rose cannellate and palewise and laced with caves where small forktailed birds set forth against a sky reaching blue and moteless to the sun itself.

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