paly
adjEtymology From pale + -y.
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Obsolete Pale; lacking colour.
- Fain would I go to chafe his paly lips With twenty thousand kisses,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:
- 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