platy

comparative platier · superlative platiest

1. Resembling plates.
2. governmentSemy of plates (roundels argent).

   Alternative form: platé

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   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

3. chemistryComposed of thin plate-like pieces of rock or mineral.

plural platys · plural platies

1. 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.

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   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

1. A town in Central Macedonia, Greece.
2. A small village on Lemnos, Greece.