per pall

English

Per pall gules, argent, and sable.

Adverb

per pall (not comparable)

1. (heraldry, uncommon) (Partitioned) into three triangular sections, one pointing down from the top of the shield and the others occupying the remainder of the left and right halves of the shield, as if the shield is divided by a Y shape (formally party per pall or tierced per pall).
   • 1896, Franz Sales Meyer, A Handbook of Ornament, with 300 Plates Containing about 3000 Illustrations of the Elements, and the Application of Decoration to Objects, page 508:

     44. Per pall, sable, argent and gules. 45. Per pall reversed, or, argent and azure. 46. Argent, a pall gules.

   • 1936, Alpha Kappa Psi Diary:

     […] is : Per pall (or per pairle), reversed; or, sable and azure; in dexter chief an azure money bag tied and lined gules, proper ; in sinister chief a pair of balances palewise of the fourth; in base a Phoenician galley with sails […]

   • 1929, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour:

     Per pall azure, argent and gules, a pall between in chief a sun in splendour or, on the dexter side upon a mount issuing from base an oak-tree proper, and on the sinister side three mullets of six points one and two of the fourth […]