Mi-parti

Quick meaning: Mi-parti is an adjective meaning (heraldry, clothing, chiefly historical) Vertically divided into distinctly-coloured or patterned halves; party per pale.

Meaning

(heraldry, clothing, chiefly historical) Vertically divided into distinctly-coloured or patterned halves; party per pale.

More Meanings

1. (chiefly historical, rare) A garment vertically divided into two distinctly-coloured or patterned halves.

Example Sentences

All the colors of the Universe radiate off the walls and floor of this room. The being here is dressed in a miparti.

Almost all the indoor servants were given three ells of coloured shortcloth, together with three ells of striped cloth for their suits, which must have been, therefore, mi-parti.

They are all parted per pale, or (to vſe Scohier's word, mi-partie, that is, parted longwiſe in the midſt, or perpendicularly parted, but yet ſeuerally affected in the partings […]

'Correct,' echoed the third fop, in red and blue mi-parti. 'To begin with, we'll tan the hide of that peasant in the European style. Come on, gentlemen, your canes! And may none of us shirk!

Word Forms

• miparti
• mi-partis

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include triparted, palar, particoloured, bendy, plumetty, party-coloured.

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