Citations:virolee

English citations of virolee

of a horn (trumpet, etc): having rings of a different (specified) tincture

• 1718, Alexander Nisbet, An Essay on the Ancient and Modern Use of Armories: Shewing Their Origin, Definition and Division of Them Into Their Several Species..., page 212:

  […] the Atchievment of the Princes of Orange of the Family of Nassau, thus quarterly, […] over all an Escutcheon, by way of Surtout, quarterly, 1st and 4th, Gules, a Bend Or, for Chalon; 2d and 3d, Or, a hunting Horn Azur virolee, and stringed Gules, for the Prince Palatine or Orange,

• 1819, A Short Account of the City and Close of Lichfield: To which is Added A Short Account of the Cathedral ..., Thomas George Lomax, page 34:

  Or, three bugle horns, without strings, gules, virolee, argent. On an helmet of gold, affrontee, richly ornamented with pearls and silver, mantled, azure, doubled, argent a cap rounded at the top, ermine, with a bordure at the bottom […]