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Glover's Roll (British Library Add MS 29796), a 16th-century copy of a roll of arms of the 1250s has depictions of various heraldic crosses, including the or a cross gules of the earl of Norfolk, gules, a cross argent of Peter of Savoy, argent a cross gules of Robert de Veer, gules a cross flory vair of Guillaume de Forz, Comte d'Aumale, gules ...
a cross enhanced - Argent; a cross enhanced gules, over all a billet charged with a cross pattée fitchée, all counterchanged and in base issuant from each flank a demi fir tree in pale gules - St. George's Church Pickering Village, Canada
The term gules derives from the Middle English goules, which itself is an Old French word meaning "neckpiece made of red fur". Goules is derived from the Old French gole or guele, both of which mean "throat", which are ultimately derived from the Latin gula, also meaning "throat". Gules is similar to the English word gullet.
Argent and gules: Shield: Argent on a cross gules five pineapples slipped or: Supporters: On the dexter side a Taíno native woman holding in the exterior hand a basket of fruits and on the sinister side a Taíno native man supporting by the exterior hand a bow, all proper: Motto "Out of many, one people"
Shield: Or, three bars gules, on a canton ermine a cross paty gules. Crest: Issuant from a human heart a dexter hand holding a sword proper. Motto: In Cruce Vinco (In the cross I conquer). [15] Arms of Chester A. Arthur, 21st president, 1881–1885 Shield: Gules, a chevron argent between three rests [clarions] or.
voided—Town of Lacombe: Or a cross Gules voided throughout of the field between in the first quarter a Mountain Bluebird (Sialia currucoides) volant bendwise Azure, in the second an open book Argent bound Azure, in the third a cross flory Azure voided of the field and charged with a cross couped Gules, and in the fourth two bendlets and two ...
Escutcheon: Azure on a chevron Argent between two bears' heads couped Argent muzzled Gules in chief and a fleece Argent in base a roebuck's head erased between two hands grasping daggers the points turned towards the buck's head all Proper. Crest: A dexter arm couped at the elbow Proper the hand grasping a pair of balances Or.
A lozenge-shaped escutcheon is used to depict heraldry for a female (in continental Europe especially an unmarried woman), but is also sometimes used as a shape for mural monuments in churches which commemorate females, as a shield was considered inappropriate for women who did not generally participate in combat; for the same reason, clergymen ...