Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The color red, indicated on a blazon by vertical lines.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In heraldry, the tincture red: in representations without color, as in drawing or engraving, it is indicated by vertical lines drawn close together.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun heraldry The
blazoning term forred , e.g. on acoat of arms , typically represented in engraving byvertical parallel lines. - adjective heraldry In
blazon , of the colour red.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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To honor his Mother, Prince William has added a red scallop shell "escallop gules", prominent in the Spencer ancestors' coats of arms.
Margie Goldsmith: Royal Wedding Fever - Bespoke Style Margie Goldsmith 2011
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The scribe uses non-standard language to indicate the colors normally, they would be azure, or, and gules, but what he is describing is a sapphire-blue shield cut diagonally by a yellow-topaz band, over which the ruby-red fencepost-like design has been laid.
Carolyn Vega: An Elizabethan Armorial Carolyn Vega 2011
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To honor his Mother, Prince William has added a red scallop shell "escallop gules", prominent in the Spencer ancestors' coats of arms.
Margie Goldsmith: Royal Wedding Fever - Bespoke Style Margie Goldsmith 2011
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The scribe uses non-standard language to indicate the colors normally, they would be azure, or, and gules, but what he is describing is a sapphire-blue shield cut diagonally by a yellow-topaz band, over which the ruby-red fencepost-like design has been laid.
Carolyn Vega: An Elizabethan Armorial Carolyn Vega 2011
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It's like being a medieval knight, but instead of having rampant gules and lion resplendent, you have green for Tehran awareness on a background of gray for Aphasia and Brown for Anti-Tobacco.
December is Enough Awareness Month Alexandra Petri 2010
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It's like being a medieval knight, but instead of having rampant gules and lion resplendent, you have green for Tehran awareness on a background of gray for Aphasia and Brown for Anti-Tobacco.
December is Enough Awareness Month Alexandra Petri 2010
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The coolest flag, as seen through the eyes of a third grade boy: definitely Mozambique, on which we see an AK-47 vying with a hoe atop a chagrined and retiring book or in heraldic terms, AK-47 rampant with hoe per saltire a gules.
Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Flags of all nations 2008
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“Show him a coat and let him blazon it his own way,” said the Duke; “and if he fails, I promise him that his back shall be gules, azure, and sable.”
Quentin Durward 2008
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We bear an eagle or, on a field sable, with a silver crown, beak and claws gules, and a fine motto: NON CECIDIT ANIMUS.
The Magic Skin 2007
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Lucien went on, “that I now bear gules, a bull raging argent on a meadow vert.”
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