Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The throat; the gullet.
  • noun Gluttony.
  • In heraldry, to give the color of gules to.
  • To laugh or grin; sneer; boast.
  • noun A term occurring in the phrase gule of August, Lammas day (August 1st).

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To give the color of gules to.
  • noun obsolete The throat; the gullet.

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  • noun obsolete The throat; the gullet.

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Examples

  • “First and third quarter, gule; a heart between three cross-cross lay fitchees, or” for the yellow heart and three crosses on the red field in the upper left and lower right of the shield.

    John Adams and His Medieval Art 2008

  • David Hagerman At Adriatico Café, a rich afternoon snack: the sweet bread called ensaimada, served with a wedge of Edam cheese, taken with a cup of tsokolate, made with native cacao Aligue ng talangka, an artery-clogging but swoon-worthy side dish made primarily with the fat of small paddy crabs, embodies the Pampango love of excess, while gule Magalang,

    Filipino Flavors 2008

  • Brush in hand he meticulously adds detail to the charge — a lion rampant, Argent, set on a blazon, gule, of the Scottish Wallace line, one the most popular requests he gets.

    John Adams and His Medieval Art 2008

  • “First and third quarter, gule; a heart between three cross-cross lay fitchees, or” for the yellow heart and three crosses on the red field in the upper left and lower right of the shield.

    John Adams and His Medieval Art 2008

  • Brush in hand he meticulously adds detail to the charge — a lion rampant, Argent, set on a blazon, gule, of the Scottish Wallace line, one the most popular requests he gets.

    John Adams and His Medieval Art 2008

  • Being decently and orderlye pullished, with a requisite rebatement, _Lataster gule thore orbicle, Astragals_ or

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

  • Of this goodly stone were exact two litle halfe pillers, chamfered with their bases, holding vp a streight Sime, with a gule and adiected denticulature & cordicules, or worke of harts, with their chapters vnder

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

  • The gule-stayn'dd [13] folyage of the okenn trees,

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 330, September 6, 1828 Various

  • The gule [22] depeyncted [23] oares from the black tyde,

    The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

  • The gule-steynct [90] brygandyne [91], the adventayle [92],

    The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

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  • "'But I pray that you may yet be saved from gule, that most brutish and most unamiable of the seven deadly sins.'"

    --P. O'Brian, The Yellow Admiral, 90

    March 19, 2008