gules
/ɡjuːlz
/noun [mass noun]
Red, as a heraldic tincture: [postpositive]: sword and long cross gules...
- He bore a shield of silver, stencilled with gules.
- Red (‘gules’) can be any shade of red, but cannot be replaced by another colour.
Origin
Middle English: from Old French goles (plural of gole 'throat', from Latin gula), used to denote pieces of red-dyed fur used as a neck ornament.
Rhymes
- middle management
- middle manager
- middlemanship
- middle market
- middle market price
- middle mast
- middle mediastinum
- middle-middle
- middle-middle-class
- middlemost
- middle name
- middleness
- middle night
- middle-of-the-road
- middle-of-the-roadism
- middle-of-the-roadness
- middle oil
- middle order
- middle passage
- middle path
- middle peasant
- middle period
- Middle Persian
- middle piece
- Middle Platonism