palyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

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

形容詞

paly (not comparable)

1. (heraldry) Palewise; vertically striped.

派生語

語源 2

From pale +‎ -y.

形容詞

paly (comparative more paly, superlative most paly)

1. (poetic) Pale; lacking colour. [from 16th c.]
   • 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, / O'erhung with paly locks of gold.

   • 1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 13: Nausicaa]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 336:

     The paly light of evening falls upon a face infinitely sad and wistful.

アナグラム

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