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gules, n. and a. orig. and chiefly Her.|gjuːlz|
Forms: 4 goulez, gowlez, gwlis, 4–5 goules, gowles, -is, 4–6 gowlys, 5 gols, goulis, -ys, 5–6 gull(e)s, 6 gewles, gowlles, gullis, 7 geulles, gueles, gueules, 6– gules. Also 6 guele, 7 gule.
[ad. OF. goules, gueules (F. gueules) = med.L. gulæ pl., ermine dyed red.
The ulterior etymology is disputed: the word coincides in form with the pl. of the Fr. and med.Lat. word for ‘throat’. If the heraldic sense be the original, the allusion may be to the colour of the open mouth of a heraldic beast. It seems more likely, however, that the heraldic use is transferred from the sense ‘red ermine’, in which case the word may represent some oriental name; but the suggestion of derivation from Pers. gul, rose (Hatz.-Darm.), is very improbable.]
A. n. Red, as one of the heraldic colours; in engraving represented by vertical lines. Hence poet. and rhetorically, the colour red in general.
13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 619 Then þay schewed hym þe schelde, þat was of schyr goulez. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints, George 922 Berand þe scheld of siluir schene of gwlis. a1400–50Alexander 4819 Quare all þe gronde was of gols [L. cujus terra erat valde rubicunda]. c1440York Myst. xvi. 19 Þan glorius gulles þat gayer [is] þan golde. c1475Rauf Coilȝear 669 Gowlis glitterand full gay, glemand in grene. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. (1858) I. 203 With goldin gullis glitterand as the gleid. 1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1341/2 Banners of gewles beaten with the armes of Antwerpe. 1603Drayton Bar. Wars ii. xxiv, In his white Cornet, Verdon doth display A fret of Gueles. 1651Cleveland Poems 26 Or parboyl'd Lobsters, where there joyntly rules The fading Sables, and the coming Gules. 1708J. Philips Cyder ii. 293 The showery arch, With listed colours gay, ore, azure, gules. 1820Keats Eve St. Agnes xxv, The wintry moon..threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast. 1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. 10 Painted shapes of gules and azure.
B. quasi-adj. and adj. Red in colour. (In most instances properly an attributive use of the n.; usually placed after the word which it qualifies.)
1503–4in Trevelyan Papers (Camden) 7 The armys off Carminow, Garter seth, yt sholde be gevyne wt a labell of iij poyntts gulls. a1533Ld. Berners Huon xxxii. 99 His shylde, wherin was purtruyed .iii. crosses gowlles. 1562Leigh Armorie (1597) 5 b, In colour neither red nor Sanguine, but is the verie vermilion it selfe, for that is right Geule. 1607Shakes. Timon iv. iii. 59 Follow thy Drumme, With mans blood paint the ground Gules, Gules. 1650B. Discolliminium 46 My Complexion, a Sable Sanguine, with a few Gule drops about my Nose. a1678Marvell Unfort. Lover 64 Wks. 1726 I. 59 In a Field Sable a Lover Gules. 1790Burns Ep. to R. Graham xiv, The Magna Charta flag..All deadly gules its bearing. 1820Shelley Œdipus i. 144 Their arms are seven bulls in a field gules. 1864Boutell Her. Hist. & Pop. xv. 186 In the Calais Roll these mullets are blazoned gules. 1871J. Hay Pike County Ballads (1880) 152 With silken mantles blushing angry gules. |