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adj
Vertically divided into distinctly-coloured or patterned halves; party per pale.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, not-comparable
Topics: business, clothing, fashion, government, heraldry, hobbies, lifestyle, manufacturing, monarchy, nobility, politics, textiles
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noun
A garment vertically divided into two distinctly-coloured or patterned halves.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, historical, rare, uncountable
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History
Learned borrowing from French mi-parti (literally “divided down the middle”), from Middle French mi-parti, from Old French miparti, past participle of mipartir (“to split in half”), from mi (“middle”) + partir (“to split”); compare medial and party (“divided”). Though the term is mentioned beginning in the 17th century, actual use is apparently only recorded from the 19th century onwards.
