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What (who) is gules - definition
TINCTURE OF RED IN HERALDRY
Gules (heraldry)
![County of Dietz]], ''<u>Gules</u>, two lions passants or armed and langued azure''</small>](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maurice of Nassau arms.svg?width=200 "County of Dietz]], ''<u>Gules</u>, two lions passants or armed and langued azure''</small>")
![Historia Anglorum]]'' c. 1250](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Henry III, King of England, coat of arms (Royal MS 14 C VII, 100r).jpg?width=200 "Historia Anglorum]]'' c. 1250")
![Coat of arms of the [[House of Savoy]], ''gules a cross argent''[[Chillon Castle]], c. 1500](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Schweiz Schloss Chillon Wandwappen.jpg?width=200 "Coat of arms of the [[House of Savoy]], ''gules a cross argent''[[Chillon Castle]], c. 1500")
![The [[Royal Arms of Scotland]] '' Or a lion rampant Gules within a double tressure flory-counter-flory of the second''''Livro de Armerio-Mor'', c. 1509](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fl- 14v Livro do Armeiro-Mor, Rei da Escocia.jpg?width=200 "The [[Royal Arms of Scotland]] '' Or a lion rampant Gules within a double tressure flory-counter-flory of the second''''Livro de Armerio-Mor'', c. 1509")
![stained glass]], 1573), ''gules plain''; the [[Juliusbanner]] with the ''[[Arma Christi]]'' inset is held by one of the supporters.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/WAF im Landesmuseum Zürich 26.jpg?width=200 "stained glass]], 1573), ''gules plain''; the [[Juliusbanner]] with the ''[[Arma Christi]]'' inset is held by one of the supporters.")
![city of Vienna]], ''gules a cross argent'' Stained glass at the Franciscan Monastery Museum in Villingen-Schwenningen, 1567](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Villingen, Franziskanermuseum, Wappenscheibe mit dem österr. Bindenschild, 1567, Inv. 11858.jpg?width=200 "city of Vienna]], ''gules a cross argent'' Stained glass at the Franciscan Monastery Museum in Villingen-Schwenningen, 1567")
![Kingdom of Poland]], ''Gules, an eagle argent, crowned or''''Chorographia Württemberg'', 1591, attributed to [[Casimir III the Great]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wolleber Chorographia Mh6-1 0567 Wappen.jpg?width=200 "Kingdom of Poland]], ''Gules, an eagle argent, crowned or''''Chorographia Württemberg'', 1591, attributed to [[Casimir III the Great]]")
gules
n.
(Her.) Red.
gules
[gju:lz]
¦ noun red, as a heraldic tincture.
Origin
ME: from OFr. goles (plural of gole 'throat', from L. gula), used to denote pieces of red-dyed fur used as a neck ornament.
Gules
·noun 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.
Wikipedia
Gules
In heraldry, gules () is the tincture with the colour red. It is one of the class of five dark tinctures called "colours", the others being azure (blue), sable (black), vert (green) and purpure (purple).
Gules is portrayed in heraldic hatching by vertical lines, or indicated by the abbreviation g. or gu. when a coat of arms is tricked.
