Middle English Dictionary Entry
gǒules n. & adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | gǒules n. & adj. Also goles, gols, gul(l)es. |
| Etymology | OF goles, gueules, gules, goules. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Her. The tincture gules, red; red ~; also, gules-tinctured, gules-depicted.
Associated quotations
- c1400(?c1390) Gawain (Nero A.10)619 : Then þay schewed hym þe schelde, þat was of schyr goulez.
- c1400(?c1390) Gawain (Nero A.10)663 : On his schene schelde schapen watz þe knot Ryally wyth red golde vpon rede gowlez.
- c1400 Femina (Trin-C B.14.40)27 : Escuue de goulez il porte..A sheld of red goulez he beruþ.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)3.494 : In his scheld, I fynde..Þe chefe of gold, of goulys a lyoun Depeint þer-in.
- a1425-a1500(?c1350) Libeaus (Kaluza)913 : He bar þe scheld of goules.
- c1425(c1400) Ld.Troy (LdMisc 595)8703 : Many an armes was ther reuersed..He bar of gold and of goules.
- a1450(c1433) Lydg.St.Edm.(Hrl 2278)377/25 : The feeld off Gowlys was tokne off his suffrance.
- c1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)3646 : Buskes baners one brode, betyne of gowles.
- c1440 Degrev.(Thrn)1052 : He beris a schelde of asure..Bot his bagges are blake..A lyon tyed till an ake Of gowlys and grene.
- (1449) Metham AC (Gar 141)566 : Breuely I schal conclude, omyttyng colourys; as off syluer and sabyl, Asure, gold, goulys, and verd, the ennamyllyngys in sundry maner.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)5927 : Thre lions the lord bare, all of light goulis.
- c1450(c1400) Sultan Bab.(Gar 140)189 : He bare a Chek of goulis clere, An Egle of goolde abrode displayed.
- ?c1450 Brut-1447 (Trin-C O.9.1)459/4 : There was..the armes of the towne in gowles, a chieff of asure, with the flourdelice of gold in asure.
- (1455) Doc.in Nicholl Ironmongers26 : Siluer, a cheueron of Gowles..with two lizardes of theire owne kynde, encoupeld with Gowlys.
- (c1460) Bk.Arms in Anc.3 (Hrl 2169)198 : The feld of gold, the dowbyll tressore flourte all gowlys, the lyone of the same.
- (1461) Grant Arms in Hrl.Soc.77 (Add 14295)192 : Hee bears Azure, A Cheveron of golde..A Chiefe gules with three maydens heads in there heare.
- 1466 Challenge Warw.in PMLA 22 (Lnsd 285)601 : Hereupon my lorde sent his letres ensealde with his Armes that he berith of Siluir with the maunchet of Goules as they bee enbrowdid in þe seide lords white bedde of berys.
- c1475 Sln.4 Recipes in Rel.Ant.1 (Sln 4)324 : There he [read: be] but ij metallys and v colours yn all blasyng of armes..sylver and gold metalles; sabylls, aser, gowles, synaper, and verte colers.
- a1450(?c1320) Fasc.Mor.in EASBrown (Rwl C.670)153 : Ipse enim vt videtis gestat scutum de minio, goules..Nam per illud scutum in goules intelligo ardentem amorem et caritatem.
- a1500(?c1400) Gowther (Adv 19.3.1)580 : Þo sawdyn bare in sabull blacke iij lyons rampand..Won was corvon with golys redde, A nodur with gold in þat steyd, þo thryde with aser.
- a1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)395 : He..hath that shelde de-parted of vert and gowles.
- a1500 Conq.Irel.(Rwl B.490)11 marg. : Party per pale gules & ermyn a saltyer contrechaunged.
2.
The color red; also, red-colored.
Associated quotations
- a1450 Yk.Pl.(Add 35290)124/19 : I am fairer of face..þan glorius gulles, þat gayer [is] þan golde.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)3368 : Þe ferd was a granate, I gesse, goules althire fynest; Is nane so redy..of all þe riche stanes.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)4819 : Þan past þai doun..in-to a playn launde, Quare all þe gronde was of gols.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)4989 : Þar bade a brid..with frekild pennys, Of gold graynes & of goules.