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(heraldry) Red, e.g. on a coat of arms, typically represented in engraving by vertical parallel lines. examples
(heraldry) In blazon, of the colour red. quotations examples
Now is he total gules, horridly tricked
1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, ii 2
You know they stillCall themselves Bulls, though thus degenerate,And everything relating to a BullIs popular and respectable in Thebes.Their arms are seven Bulls in a field gules;They think their strength consists in eating beef,—
1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts
plural of gule examples