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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Gules \Gules\, n. [OE. goules, F. gueules, the same word as gueule throat, OF. gole, goule, L. gula. So named from the red color of the throat. See {Gullet}, and cf. {Gula}.] (Her.) The tincture red, indicated in seals and engraved figures of escutcheons by parallel vertical lines. Hence, used poetically for a red color or that which is red. His sev'n-fold targe a field of gules did stain In which two swords he bore; his word, [bd]Divide and reign.[b8] --P. Fletcher. Follow thy drum; With man's blood paint the ground; gules, gules. --Shak. Let's march to rest and set in gules, like suns. --Beau. & Fl. | |
