gules

Etymology

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

noun

1. plural of gule

noun

1. (heraldry) Red, e.g. on a coat of arms, typically represented in engraving by vertical parallel lines.
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adj

1. (heraldry) In blazon, of the colour red.
   The symbol of the Red Cross is a cross gules.
   Now is he total gules, horridly tricked 1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, ii 2
   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, 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts