viroled

English

Etymology

virole +‎ -ed. Related to ferruled.

Adjective

viroled (not comparable)

1. (heraldry) Furnished with viroles; said of a horn or bugle whose rings are of different tincture.
   • 1893, James Balfour Paul, An Ordinary of Arms Contained in the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland, page 200:

     Az., a saltire or, in base a hunting-horn arg., viroled vert and stringed of the second, on a chief of the third a buckle in pale of the field between two cushions gu. COLLOW OF AUCHENCHEYNE (1773).

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Alternative forms

• ferruled, veruled

Further reading

• “viroled”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.