The pale is an honourable ordinary, consisting of two perpendicular lines drawn from the top to the base of the escutcheon, and contains one third of the width of the field.
Ex. Azure, a pale, or.
The pale may be formed of any of the lines before described; it is then called a pale engrailed, a pale dancette, &c.
The pale has a diminutive called the pallet, which is one half the width of the pale.
Ex. Argent, a pallet, gules.
The pale has another diminutive one fourth its size; it is called an endorse.
Ex. Argent, a pale between two endorses, gules.