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comparative platier, superlative platiest
Resembling plates. examples
(heraldry) Semy of plates (roundels argent). quotations examples
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
[...] 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
(geology, mineralogy) Composed of thin plate-like pieces of rock or mineral.
plural platys or platies or platy
Any of two species (and hybrids) of tropical fish of the genus Xiphophorus (which also includes the swordtails). examples