viroled
English
editEtymology
editFrom virole + -ed. Related to ferruled.
Adjective
editviroled (not comparable)
- (heraldry) Furnished with viroles; said of a horn or bugle whose rings are of different tincture.
- 1893, James Balfour Paul, An Ordinary of Arms Contained in the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland, page 200:
- Az., a saltire or, in base a hunting-horn arg., viroled vert and stringed of the second, on a chief of the third a buckle in pale of the field between two cushions gu. COLLOW OF AUCHENCHEYNE (1773).
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:viroled.
Alternative forms
editFurther reading
edit- “viroled”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.