单词 | gules |
释义 | gulesn.adj. Originally and chiefly Heraldry. A. n. Red, as one of the heraldic colours; in engraving represented by vertical lines. Hence poetically and rhetorically, the colour red in general. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [noun] rednesseOE rudOE red?c1225 ruddya1387 ruddinessa1398 gulesa1400 rothumc1400 ruddeningc1400 ruddonc1400 rouge1437 rubor?a1450 rossome1527 Mars1572 rubedinousness1599 reddiness1611 scarletness1611 rubetude1657 floridity1713 erubescence1736 floridness1776 fiery1847 raddle1860 society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic tincture > [noun] > colour > red gulesa1400 ruby1572 a1400–50 Alexander 4819 Quare all þe gronde was of gols [L. cujus terra erat valde rubicunda]. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 619 Then þay schewed hym þe schelde, þat was of schyr goulez [MS reads gouleȝ]. c1440 York Myst. xvi. 19 Þan glorius gulles þat gayer [is] þan golde. c1480 (a1400) St. George 922 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 202 Berand þe scheld of siluir schene of gwlis. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 203 With goldin gullis glitterand as the gleid. 1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 669 Gowlis glitterand full gay, glemand in grene. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1341/2 Banners of gewles beaten with the armes of Antwerpe. 1619 M. Drayton Barons Warres ii. xxiv, in Poems (rev. ed.) 21 In his white Cornet, Verdon doth display A fret of Gueles. 1647 J. Cleveland Poems in Char. London-diurnall (Wing C4662) 29 Or parboyl'd Lobsters, where there joyntly rules The fading Sables and the coming Gules. 1708 J. Philips Cyder ii. 293 The showery arch, With listed colours gay, ore, azure, gules. 1820 J. Keats Eve of St. Agnes in Lamia & Other Poems 95 The wintry moon..threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast. 1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics (1860) I. 10 Painted shapes of gules and azure. B. adj. Red in colour. (Usually placed after the word which it qualifies.) ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [adjective] redeOE reodeOE ruddya1398 reddy?c1400 purple1415 rougea1425 redly1486 gules1503 red-coloured1547 guly1592 blushing1597 angrya1616 rubric1623 minious1646 nacarinea1648 ruddle1649 rubriform1704 carbuncly?1730 blushful1804 envermeiled1822 ablush1852 flammulated1872 pyrrhous1890 1503–4 in Trevelyan Papers (Camden) 7 The armys off Carminow, Garter seth, yt sholde be gevyne wt a labell of iij poyntts gulls. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xxxii. 99 His shylde, wherin was purtruyed .iii. crosses gowlles. 1562 G. Legh Accedens of Armory (1597) 5 b In colour neither red nor Sanguine, but is the verie vermilion it selfe, for that is right Geule. a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iv. iii. 59 Follow thy Drumme, With mans blood paint the ground Gules, Gules. View more context for this quotation 1650 N. Ward Discolliminium 46 My Complexion, a Sable Sanguine, with a few Gule drops about my Nose. a1678 A. Marvell Unfort. Lover 64 in Wks. (1726) I. 59 In a Field Sable a Lover Gules. 1788 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 552 The Magna charta flag unfurls, All deadly gules it's bearing. 1820 P. B. Shelley Œdipus Tyrannus i. 15 Their arms are seven bulls in a field gules. 1863 C. Boutell Man. Heraldry xvi. 165 In the roll of Edward III, these mullets are blazoned gules. 1871 J. Hay Pike County Ballads (1880) 152 With silken mantles blushing angry gules. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.a1400 |
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