gewles

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Noun

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gewles (uncountable)

  1. Obsolete spelling of gules.
    • 1586, Sir John Ferne, The blazon of gentrie, page 234:
      Argent, a fesse ingrailed betweene foure mains Sinister Gewles.
    • 1863, John Gough Nichols, The Herald and Genealogist, page 81:
      Arms, a chevron gewles betwene ijj leopartes heades sables, the ijd quarter of the same, three cinquefoiles of the first, differenced by a martlet gewles. Crest, a wyvern argent hanged with a crowne about the necke geules []
    • 1880, Thomas Benolt, The Visitation of Lancashire and a Part of Cheshire: Made in the Twenty-fourth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth, 1533 A. D., by Special Commission of Thomas Benalt, Clarencieux, page 213:
      ... [...] bearyng armes whych be Syluer a Lyon rampaunt gewles armed and langed asure  []