gules

• gu. or g. (in heraldic contexts)

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡjuːlz/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡjulz/, /ˈɡulz/
• Homophone: ghouls (one pronunciation)
• Rhymes: -uːlz

gules (uncountable)

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

   gules:  

• guly

gules

1. (heraldry) In blazon, of the colour red.

   The symbol of the Red Cross is a cross gules.

   • 1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, ii 2:

     Now is he total gules, horridly tricked

   • 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:

     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,—

gules

1. plural of gule

• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermilion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}

• Guels, glues, gusle, luges

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈɡu.ləs]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈɡu.les]

gules m (uncountable)

1. (heraldry) gules (colour)

gules (invariable)

1. (heraldry) gules

gules m (plural gules)

1. (heraldry) gules

• “gules”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16