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I love it when I find a new word, one I didn't know existed. I'm reading PD James' "The Lighthouse", and this passage taught me a new word: ...the dancing gules of light from the fire on the stone floor...

From my Cassel's English Dictionary: gules - n. a red colour, represented on an engraved escutcheon by vertical lines a. red