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gules: tags: [heraldry]

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Definition:

the color red, usually referring to a color on a coat of arms

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PUNT: It is the most vile, foolish, absurd, palpable, and ridiculous escutcheon that ever this eye survised. — Save you, good monsieur Fastidious.

COR: Silence, good knight; on, on.

SOG: [reads] "Gyrony of eight pieces; azure and gules; between three plates, a chevron engrailed checquy, or, vert, and ermins; on a chief argent, between two ann'lets sable, a boar's head, proper."

CAR: How's that! on a chief argent?

SOG: [reads] "On a chief argent, a boar's head proper, between two annulets sable."

Ben Jonson. Every Man out of His Humour (1600)

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On the scutcheon we'll have a bend or in the dexter base, a saltire murrey in the fess, with a dog, couchant, for common charge, and under his foot a chain embattled, for slavery, with a chevron vert in a chief engrailed, and three invected lines on a field azure, with the nombril points rampant on a dancette indented; crest, a runaway nigger, sable, with his bundle over his shoulder on a bar sinister; and a couple of gules for supporters, which is you and me; motto, Maggiore Fretta, Minore Otto. Got it out of a book—means the more haste the less speed."

Mark Twain. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

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He explained this to her with as much gravity as if she had asked him to do it.

“Baton de gueules, engrele de gueules d’azur—maison Conde,”¹⁰ said he.

The princess listened, smiling.

^{10. Hippolyte’s heraldry, like the rest of his conversation and conduct, is that of an utter fool. The arms of Conde are D’or à la fasce de gueules, or a fess gules. What Hippolyte says they are is untranslatable nonsense.—A.M.}

Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman . Simon & Schuster

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With heraldry more dismal. Head to foot

Now is be total gules, horridly trick'd

With blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sons,

William Shakespeare. Hamlet.