per pale
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English
Left: party per pale, gules and argent. Right: tierced per pale, gules, argent, and sable.
Adverb
per pale (not comparable)
- (heraldry) (Partitioned) vertically; (especially) partitioned vertically into two halves (formally party per pale).
- per pale gules and argent; tierced per pale; an escutcheon tierced per pale and per chevron
- 1914, John Horne Stevenson, Heraldry in Scotland, page 161:
- Alexander Wemyss of Lathocar, however, in 1511 bears, per pale, dexter a lion rampant for Wemyss, and sinister a saltire. The saltire is probably his wife's arms.