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Gules, the heraldic names of the colour usually called red. The word is derived from the Arabic word gule, a rose, and was probably introduced by the Crusaders. Gules is denoted in engravings by numerous perpendicular lines. Heralds who blazoned by planets and jewels called it Mars and ruby....
Gule
To give the color of gules to...
Gule of August
Gule of August, the first day of that month, Fitz. N.B. 62; Plow. 316....
Gules
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...
Guly
Of or pertaining to gules red...
Lammas
Lammas [said to be derived from a custom by which the tenants of the Archbishop of York were obliged, at the time of Mass, on the 1st of August, to bring a live lamb to the altar. In Scotland they are said to wear lambs on this day. It may be corrupted from latter-math. Others derive it from a Saxon word, signifying loaf-mass, because on that day our forefathers made an offering of bread composed of new wheat], the gule or 1st of August, and the second of the four cross quarter-days of the year, Encyc. Londin.; Wheat. Com. Pr....
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