virole

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English

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Etymology

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From French virole (ferrule). See ferrule.

Noun

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virole (plural viroles)

  1. (heraldry) A ring surrounding a bugle or hunting horn.
    • 1836, Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford, The Popular Encyclopedia;: pt. 1: England-Germany (literature and science), page 698:
      [] except when he has a hood, bells, virols, or rings, and leashes, in which case he is said to be hooded, belled, jessed, and leashed; []
    • 1892, John Woodward, George Burnett, A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 386:
      The Florentine GUICCIARDINI bore : Azure, three hunting-horns argent, the mouth-pieces and viroles or, banded gules. Gules, three trumpets fessways in pale argent, is the canting coat of CALL (Baronets).
    • 1908, Arthur Francis Pimbley, Pimbley's Dictionary of Heraldry: Together with an Illustrated Supplement, page 67:
      Viroled- (vi-rold') Furnished with a virole or viroles. Said of a bugle or horn when borne with rings of a different tincture from the bugle itself.
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French

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Etymology

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From Vulgar Latin *viriola, diminutive of viria (bracelet).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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virole f (plural viroles)

  1. ferrule

Descendants

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  • English: virole

Further reading

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Italian

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Noun

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virole f

  1. plural of virola

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