Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A term occurring in the phrase gule of August, Lammas day (August 1st).
- To laugh or grin; sneer; boast.
- In heraldry, to give the color of gules to.
- noun The throat; the gullet.
- noun Gluttony.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To give the color of gules to.
- noun obsolete The throat; the gullet.
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- noun obsolete The
throat ; thegullet .
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Examples
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“First and third quarter, gule; a heart between three cross-cross lay fitchees, or” for the yellow heart and three crosses on the red field in the upper left and lower right of the shield.
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David Hagerman At Adriatico Café, a rich afternoon snack: the sweet bread called ensaimada, served with a wedge of Edam cheese, taken with a cup of tsokolate, made with native cacao Aligue ng talangka, an artery-clogging but swoon-worthy side dish made primarily with the fat of small paddy crabs, embodies the Pampango love of excess, while gule Magalang,
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Brush in hand he meticulously adds detail to the charge — a lion rampant, Argent, set on a blazon, gule, of the Scottish Wallace line, one the most popular requests he gets.
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“First and third quarter, gule; a heart between three cross-cross lay fitchees, or” for the yellow heart and three crosses on the red field in the upper left and lower right of the shield.
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Brush in hand he meticulously adds detail to the charge — a lion rampant, Argent, set on a blazon, gule, of the Scottish Wallace line, one the most popular requests he gets.
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Being decently and orderlye pullished, with a requisite rebatement, _Lataster gule thore orbicle, Astragals_ or
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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Of this goodly stone were exact two litle halfe pillers, chamfered with their bases, holding vp a streight Sime, with a gule and adiected denticulature & cordicules, or worke of harts, with their chapters vnder
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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The gule-stayn'dd [13] folyage of the okenn trees,
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 330, September 6, 1828 Various
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The gule [22] depeyncted [23] oares from the black tyde,
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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The gule-steynct [90] brygandyne [91], the adventayle [92],
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
chained_bear commented on the word gule
"'But I pray that you may yet be saved from gule, that most brutish and most unamiable of the seven deadly sins.'"
--P. O'Brian, The Yellow Admiral, 90
March 19, 2008