virole

V4I1R1O1L1E1

noun

A ring surrounding a bugle or hunting horn.

Scrabble 9

Meanings

nounvirole (plural viroles)

plural viroles

  1. governmentA ring surrounding a bugle or hunting horn.

    […] 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; […]

    1836, Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford, The Popular Encyclopedia;: pt. 1: England-Germany (literature and science), page 698
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    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).

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

    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.

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

Origin

  1. Frenchvirole“ferrule”
  2. Englishvirole

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

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