# gules
## English
### Alternative forms

* gu. or g. (in heraldic contexts)

### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈɡjuːlz/
** Audio (UK):(file)
* (US) IPA: /ˈɡjulz/, /ˈɡulz/
* Homophone: ghouls (one pronunciation)
* Rhymes: -uːlz

### Noun

gules (uncountable)
* (heraldry) Red, e.g. on a coat of arms, typically represented in engraving by vertical parallel lines.
    gules:

#### Derived terms

* guly

#### Translations
### Adjective

gules
* (heraldry) In blazon, of the colour red.
    The symbol of the Red Cross is a cross gules.
** 1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, ii 2:Now is he total gules, horridly tricked
** 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts: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,—

#### Translations
### Noun

gules
* plural of gule

### See also

* blood red
* brick red
* burgundy
* cardinal
* carmine
* carnation
* cerise
* cherry
* cherry red
* Chinese red
* cinnabar
* claret
* crimson
* damask
* fire brick
* fire engine red
* flame
* flamingo
* fuchsia
* garnet
* geranium
* gules
* hot pink
* incarnadine
* Indian red
* magenta
* maroon
* misty rose
* nacarat
* oxblood
* pillar-box red
* pink
* Pompeian red
* poppy
* raspberry
* red violet
* rose
* rouge
* ruby
* ruddy
* salmon
* sanguine
* scarlet
* shocking pink
* stammel
* strawberry
* Turkey red
* Venetian red
* vermilion
* vinaceous
* vinous
* violet red
* wine
| | metals | metals | main colours | main colours | main colours | main colours | less common colours | less common colours | less common colours | less common colours |
| tincture | or | argent | gules | azure | sable | vert | purpure | tenné | orange | sanguine |
| depiction | | | | | | | | | | |
| roundel (in parentheses: semé): | bezant (bezanty) | plate (platy) | torteau (tortelly) | hurt (hurty) | pellet (pellety), ogress | pomme | golpe (golpy) | orange (semé of oranges) | orange (semé of oranges) | guze (semé of guzes) |
| goutte (noun) / gutty (adj) thereof: | (goutte / gutty) d'or (of gold) | d'eau (of water) | de sang (of blood) | de larmes (of tears) | de poix (of pitch) | d'huile / d'olive (olive oil) | | | | |
| | special roundel | furs | furs | furs | furs | furs | furs | furs | furs | additional, uncommon tinctures: |
| tincture | fountain, syke: barry wavy argent and azure | ermine | ermines, counter-ermine | erminois | pean | vair | counter-vair | potent | counter-potent | bleu celeste, brunâtre, carnation, cendrée (iron, steel, acier), copper, murrey |
| depiction | | | | | | | | | | bleu celeste, brunâtre, carnation, cendrée (iron, steel, acier), copper, murrey |

### Anagrams

* Guels, glues, gusle, luges

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈɡu.ləs]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈɡu.les]

### Noun

gules m (uncountable)
* (heraldry) gules (colour)

## Spanish
### Adjective

gules (invariable)
* (heraldry) gules

### Noun

gules m (plural gules)
* (heraldry) gules

### Further reading

* “gules”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10