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Definition of Gules

1. n. The tincture red, indicated in seals and engraved figures of escutcheons by parallel vertical lines. Hence, used poetically for a red color or that which is red.

Definition of Gules

1. Noun. (tincture) The blazoning term for red, e.g. on a coat of arms, typically represented in engraving by vertical parallel lines. ¹

2. Adjective. (tincture) In blazon, of the colour red. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Gules

1. the color red [n GULES]

Medical Definition of Gules

1. The tincture red, indicated in seals and engraved figures of escutcheons by parallel vertical lines. Hence, used poetically for a red colour or that which is red. "His sev'n-fold targe a field of gules did stain In which two swords he bore; his word, "Divide and reign."" (P. Fletcher) "Follow thy drum; With man's blood paint the ground; gules, gules." (Shak) "Let's march to rest and set in gules, like suns." (Beau. & Fl) Origin: OE. Goules, F. Gueules, the same word as gueule throat, OF. Gole, goule, L. Gula. So named from the red colour of the throat. See Gullet, and cf. Gula. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gules

Literary usage of Gules

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"HIDE : Or, a cheveron gules twixt 3 lozenges azur., in armed guls. chief an eagle ... MITTON : Parte p. pale, gules and azure, a spread eagle or and sable. ..."

2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1862)
"Barry of six, argent and gules, over all a cross potent azure—Gilbert de Gand. 4. ... Argent, a chevron gules between three garbs gules—Sheffield. 2. ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Caldecote bore " Party »Over and azure with a chief gules." Such partings of the field ... Thus Chaucer the poet bore " Party silver and gules with a bend ..."

4. Gentleman's Magazine Library edited by George Laurence Gomme, Frank Alexander Milne, Lady A C Bickley, Mrs Alice Bertha Merck Gomme (1901)
"Edward, Lord Spencer— Quarterly azure and gules, in the and and 3rd a fret or, over all a bend ... Sir Philip de la Vache—gules, three lions rampant argent, ..."

5. The Poetical Works of Thomas Chatterton: With Notices of His Life, History by Thomas Chatterton (1842)
"gules a Spear in Bend Or between four Scorpions reversed Or. (4) Barry of 10 ... (16) gules three Or. (17) Argent three Pallets varry Or and Sable on a ..."

6. The Visitation of the County of Worcester Made in the Year 1569: With Other by William Phillimore Watts Phillimore, Richard Mundy (1888)
"Quarterly of thirty-six: 1, gules, a lion rampant within a bordure engrailed or, RICES, Prime of South Wales; 2, Azure, a lion rampant within a bordure or, ..."

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