Gules, a saltire argent within a bordure sable bezantée (sic C., but Papworth cites, p. 1069, from A., per saltire gules and sable, a saltire argent, and a bordure of the 2nd platy).1877, The Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist, page 19:
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[...] fretty gules besanty / here the besants are placed at the intersection of the pieces of the fretty. A similar coat, Or, fretty gules platy, is an old coat of VERDON; and Or, fretty sable platy is the canting coat of PLATT.1892, John Woodward, George Burnett, A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 97:
Or, a fess dancetty of two points gules masoned argent; on a chief azure a representation of Maidenhead Bridge over water barry wavy in base. 212. Argent, a fess gules between 3 astral crowns azure. 213. Sable platy, a pile barry[…]1965, R. H. Wilmott, Discovering Heraldry:
Sable platy, two flaunches argent - Spelman (159). Gules, five lozenges conjoined in bend argent - Raleigh (160).1983, Charles Boutell, Boutell's Heraldry, Frederick Warne Publishers:
Etymology ] ] Translingual: Platypoecilus (“former genus of platys”)
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Any of two species (and hybrids) of tropical fish of the genus Xiphophorus (which also includes the swordtails).
I had a mixed community aquarium with several tetras, two mollies, some corydoras catfish, and a platy from a previous tank.
There were all kinds - Swordtails, Guppies, Platys, Terras [sic], Neons, Cichlids, Labyrinth and Paradise fish, and every variety of exotic Goldfish.1954, Ian Fleming, “Midnight Among The Worms”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 156: