gules
See also: gulēs
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French geule (“animal’s mouth, throat”) via (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French geules. Compare with French gueules and Spanish gules.
Pronunciation
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Audio (UK): (file) - Rhymes: -uːlz
Noun
gules (uncountable)
- (heraldry) Red, e.g. on a coat of arms, typically represented in engraving by vertical parallel lines.
- plural of gule
Translations
blazoning term for red
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Adjective
gules
- (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,—
- You know they still
Translations
heraldry, of the colour red
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See also
- (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermilion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine (Category: en:Reds)
Anagrams
Catalan
Pronunciation
Noun
gules m (uncountable)
Spanish
Adjective
gules (invariable)
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