Gules
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈɡjuːlz/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Gules is a noun meaning (heraldry) Red, e.g. on a coat of arms, typically represented in engraving by vertical parallel lines.
Meaning
(heraldry) Red, e.g. on a coat of arms, typically represented in engraving by vertical parallel lines.
More Meanings
- (heraldry) In blazon, of the colour red.
- plural of gule
Example Sentences
Now is he total gules, horridly tricked
The symbol of the Red Cross is a cross gules.
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": […].
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,—
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include saltire, fesse, lis, fess, faces, gewles.
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