gulesとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• gu. or g. (in heraldic contexts)

語源

From 中期英語 goules, from Old French geule (“animal’s mouth, throat”) via Middle French geules. Compare with French gueules, Portuguese goelas and Spanish gules.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈɡjuːlz/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈɡjulz/
• Homophone: ghouls (one pronunciation)
• 韻: -uːlz

名詞

gules (uncountable)

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

   gules:  

   • 1956 July, Col. H. C. B. Rogers, “Railway Heraldry”, in Railway Magazine, page 480:

     The official blazon of the arms of Perth is "Gules, a Holy Lambe passant regardant staff and cross argent, with the banner of St. Andrew proper, all within a double tressure counter-flowered of the second": […] .

派生語

• guly

形容詞

gules

1. (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,—

名詞

gules

1. plural of gule

参考

アナグラム

• Guels, glues, gusle, luges