party-per-pale

Updated: May 14, 2025

This prince, who was party-per-pale, Mahometan and Idolater, but prudent, a great warrior, of a comely shape, and more polite than was usual for a barbarian, had from his youth a tendency to Christianity, without being well instructed in it.

John Dryden - The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 16