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A vertical band down the centre of a shield, about a third of its width.
Also known as: Per pale
An honourable ordinary running vertically down the middle of the shield. A shield divided vertically into two equal halves is 'per pale', which is how arms are combined when a married couple's arms are shown side by side.
A vertical band down the centre of the shield, conventionally about one third of its width.
Gives its name to the division 'per pale', in which the field is split vertically into two halves — the standard arrangement for impaling two coats, as when a husband's and wife's arms are shown on one shield.
The everyday phrase 'beyond the pale' comes from the same root — a pale as a stake and so a fence — but not from the heraldic charge; the two are cousins rather than parent and child.
Shared etymology from Latin palus, not a derivation of one from the other.
A vertical band running from the top to the bottom of a shield, down its centre.
The pale runs vertically and the fess horizontally; they are the two simplest ordinaries.
A pallet is a narrow pale, differing only in width.