virole

See also: virolé

English

Etymology

From French virole (“ferrule”). See ferrule.

Noun

virole (plural viroles)

1. (heraldry) A ring surrounding a bugle or hunting horn.
   • 1836, Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford, The Popular Encyclopedia;: pt. 1: England-Germany (literature and science), page 698:

     […] except when he has a hood, bells, virols, or rings, and leashes, in which case he is said to be hooded, belled, jessed, and leashed; […]

   • 1892, John Woodward, George Burnett, A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 386:

     The Florentine GUICCIARDINI bore : Azure, three hunting-horns argent, the mouth-pieces and viroles or, banded gules. Gules, three trumpets fessways in pale argent, is the canting coat of CALL (Baronets).

   • 1908, Arthur Francis Pimbley, Pimbley's Dictionary of Heraldry: Together with an Illustrated Supplement, page 67:

     Viroled- (vi-rold') Furnished with a virole or viroles. Said of a bugle or horn when borne with rings of a different tincture from the bugle itself.

Related terms

• veruled

References

• “virole”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Oliver, oliver, violer

French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *viriola, diminutive of viria (“bracelet”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.ʁɔl/

Noun

virole f (plural viroles)

1. ferrule

Descendants

• → English: virole

Further reading

• “virole”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Noun

virole f

1. plural of virola

Anagrams

• Veroli, livore, rilevo, rilevò, rivelo, rivelò, voleri