gule

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  1. The throat; the gullet. Davies. There are many throats so wide and gules so gluttonous in England that they can swallow down goodly Cathedrals. Bp. Gauden, Tears of the Church, p. 323.
  2. Gluttony. This vice, whiche so oute of reule Hath set us alle, is clepid gule. Gower, MS. Soc. Antiq., 134, f. 176. (Halliwell.)
  3. In heraldry, to give the color of gules to. Achilles durst not looke on Hector when He guld his silver armes in Greekish bloud. Heywood, Troia Britannica (1609).
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  1. Middle English gule, from Old French gule, gole, from Latin gula, throat, gullet, gluttony: see gole, gules.
  2. from gule-s.
  3. Middle Latin gula Augusti, French la goule d'August, la goule d'Août; apparently literally ‘the throat of August,’ i. e., the beginning (see gule, gole); but said to be orig. W. gwyl Awst, feast of August: gwyl, festival, feast; Awst, August: see August.
  4. English dial.
 

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