different between gules vs gues

English

Alternative forms

• gu. or g. (in heraldic contexts)

Etymology

From Old French geule (“animal’s mouth, throat”) via Middle French geules. Compare with French gueules and Spanish gules.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??ju?lz/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??julz/, /??ulz/
• Rhymes: -u?lz

Noun

gules (uncountable)

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

2. plural of gule

Translations

Adjective

gules

1. (heraldry) In blazon, of the colour red.
   • 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

See also

• (reds) red; 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, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}

Anagrams

• Guels, glues, gusle, luges

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /??u.l?s/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /??u.les/

Noun

gules m (uncountable)

1. (heraldry) gules (colour)

Spanish

Adjective

gules (invariable)

1. (heraldry) gules

Noun

gules m (plural gules)

1. (heraldry) gules

English

Noun

gues

1. plural of gue

Anagrams

• Egus, Guse, Segu

San Juan Guelavía Zapotec

Etymology

Cognate with Choapan Zapotec yëso'.

Noun

gues

1. pot, jar

References

• López Antonio, Joaquín; Jones, Ted; Jones, Kris (2012) Vocabulario breve del Zapoteco de San Juan Guelavía?^[1] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Tlalpan, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., pages 15