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gules

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See also: gulēs and güləş

English

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The arms of the medieval House of Albret were gules plain.

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle English goules, from Old French geule (“animal’s mouth, throat”) via Middle French geules. Compare with French gueules, Portuguese goelas and Spanish gules.

Pronunciation

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɡjuːlz/
    • Audio (UK):(file)
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈɡjulz/
  • Rhymes: -uːlz

Noun

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gules (uncountable)

  1. (heraldry) Red, e.g. on a coat of arms, typically represented in engraving by vertical parallel lines.
    gules:  
    • 1956 July, Col. H. C. B. Rogers, “Railway Heraldry”, in Railway Magazine, page 480:
      The official blazon of the arms of Perth is "Gules, a Holy Lambe passant regardant staff and cross argent, with the banner of St. Andrew proper, all within a double tressure counter-flowered of the second": […] .

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Adjective

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gules

  1. (heraldry) In blazon, of the colour red.
    The symbol of the Red Cross is a cross gules.
    • 1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, ii 2:
      Now is he total gules, horridly tricked
    • 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:
      You know they still
      Call themselves Bulls, though thus degenerate,
      And everything relating to a Bull
      Is popular and respectable in Thebes.
      Their arms are seven Bulls in a field gules;
      They think their strength consists in eating beef,—

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Noun

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gules

  1. plural of gule

See also

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metals main colours less common colours
tincture or argent gules azure sable vert purpure tenné orange sanguine
depiction a shield of gold a shield of silver a shield of red a shield of blue a shield of black a shield of green a shield of purple a shield of brownish orange a shield of bright orange a shield of blood red
roundel (in parentheses: semé): a circle of gold
bezant (bezanty)		 a circle of silver
plate (platy)		 a circle of red
torteau (tortelly)		 a circle of blue
hurt (hurty)		 a circle of black
pellet (pellety), ogress		 a circle of green
pomme (pommy)
 a circle of purple
golpe (golpy)		 a circle of orange
orange (semé of oranges)		 a circle of blood red
guze (semé of guzes)
goutte (noun) / gutty (adjective) thereof: a drop of gold
(goutte / gutty) d'or (of gold)		 a drop of silver
d'eau (of water)		 a drop of red
de sang (of blood)		 a drop of blue
de larmes (of tears)		 a drop of black
de poix (of pitch)		 a drop of green
d'huile / d'olive (olive oil)		 a drop of purple
special roundel furs uncommon tinctures:
tincture fountain, syke: barry wavy argent–azure ermine ermines, counter-ermine erminois pean vair counter-vair potent counter-potent bleu celeste, brunatre, carnation, cendrée (iron, steel, acier), copper, murrey
depiction a circle of wavy blue and silver bars a shield of ermine a shield of ermines a shield of erminois a shield of pean a shield of vair a shield of countervair a shield of potent a shield of counterpotent

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Noun

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gules m (uncountable)

  1. (heraldry) gules (colour)

Spanish

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Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia es

Etymology

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Borrowed from French gueules.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɡules/ [ˈɡu.les]
  • Rhymes: -ules
  • Syllabification: gu‧les

Adjective

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gules (invariable)

  1. (heraldry) gules

Noun

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gules m (plural gules)

  1. (heraldry) gules

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