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.
Meanings
In blazon, of the colour red.
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,— 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:
The symbol of the Red Cross is a cross gules.
Now is he total gules, horridly tricked 1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, ii 2:
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Translations (19)
da rød (heraldry, of the colour red) · sh црвена (heraldry, of the colour red) · it rosso (heraldry, of the colour red) · ro roșu (heraldry, of the colour red) · bg червен (heraldry, of the colour red) · pl czerwony (heraldry, of the colour red) · mk црвен (heraldry, of the colour red) · nl rood (heraldry, of the colour red) · nl keel (heraldry, of the colour red) · sv röd (heraldry, of the colour red) · sh crvena (heraldry, of the colour red) · fr gueules (heraldry, of the colour red) · ru кра́сный (heraldry, of the colour red) · es gules (heraldry, of the colour red) · de rot (heraldry, of the colour red) · pt goles (heraldry, of the colour red) · ru червлёный (heraldry, of the colour red) · hu vörös (heraldry, of the colour red) · fi punainen (heraldry, of the colour red)
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.
(uncountable) Red, e.g. on a coat of arms, typically represented in engraving by vertical parallel lines.
The official blazon of the arms of Perth is "Gules, a Holy Lambe passant regardant staff and cross argent, with the banner of St. Andrew proper, all within a double tressure counter-flowered of the second": […]. 1956 July, Col. H. C. B. Rogers, “Railway Heraldry”, in Railway Magazine, page 480:
fi punainen (blazoning term for red) · nl keel (blazoning term for red) · pl czerwień (blazoning term for red) · fr gueules (blazoning term for red) · sh crvena (blazoning term for red) · sh црвена (blazoning term for red) · es gules (blazoning term for red) · sv rött (blazoning term for red) · pt vermelho (blazoning term for red) · ro roșu (blazoning term for red) · ru че́рвлень (blazoning term for red) · da rød (blazoning term for red) · hi लाल (blazoning term for red) · sk červená (blazoning term for red) · de Rot (blazoning term for red) · it rosso (blazoning term for red) · pt goles (blazoning term for red) · mk црвена (blazoning term for red)