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gules

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gules  (gylz)
n. Heraldry
The color red, indicated on a blazon by vertical lines.
[Middle English goules, from Old French, red fur neckpiece, pl. of gole, throat, from Latin gula.]
gules [gjuːlz]
adj (usually postpositive)
n
(History / Heraldry) Heraldry red
[from Old French gueules red fur worn around the neck, from gole throat, from Latin gula gullet]


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I lay, under a crimson maple, and I remember how the light struck through it and flushed the print with the gules of the foliage.
My Literary Passions by Howells,William Dean View in context
After 1802, the chevalier sealed his letters with a very old seal, ill-engraved to be sure, by which the Casterans, the d'Esgrignons, the Troisvilles were enabled to see that he bore: Party of France, two cottises gemelled gules, and gules, five mascles or, placed end to end; on a chief sable, a cross argent.
An Old Maid by de Balzac, Honore View in context
, and who beareth quarterly, first, argent, a wolf ravisant carrying a lamb gules; second, purpure, three mascles argent, two and one; third, paly of twelve, gules and argent; fourth, or, on a pale endorsed, three batons fleurdelises gules; supported by four griffon's-claws jessant from the sides of the escutcheon, with the motto "En Lupus in Historia," was able to surmount these rather satirical arms with a count's coronet.
Bureaucracy by de Balzac, Honore View in context
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