Gules Definition

gyo͝olz
noun
The color red: indicated in engravings by parallel vertical lines.
Webster's New World
adjective

(heraldry) In blazon, of the colour red.

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Origin of Gules

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

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English goules from Old French red fur neckpiece pl. of gole throat from Latin gula

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Gules Sentence Examples

  • Argent a bend gules with three roses argent thereon.

  • The crest is a spear broken into three pieces, two in saltire and the head in pale proper, banded gules.

  • Gules fretty argent and a chief or with a lion passant gules fretty argent and a chief or with a lion passant gules therein.

  • Per fess gules and Or in chief a Royal Crown proper and in base a Rose Gules barbed and seeded proper.

  • The red Scottish lion shown here on the right was a lion gules.

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