paly

/ˈpeɪli/

adj 2

Collocations

ADJ.

gold

VERB + PALY

detects

PALY + NOUN

lips

PREP.

with, with

Definitions

adj

Palewise; vertically striped.

adj

Pale; lacking colour.

Fain would I go to chafe his paly lips With twenty thousand kisses,

c. 1857-1873, John Greenleaf Whittier, "The Reformer" Young Romance raised his dreamy eyes, With that deep insight which detects O'erhung with paly locks of gold

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Fain would I go to chafe his paly lips With twenty thousand kisses,

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c. 1857-1873, John Greenleaf Whittier, "The Reformer" Young Romance raised his dreamy eyes, With that deep insight which detects O'erhung with paly locks of gold

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