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virole

virole noun: a ring surrounding a bugle or hunting horn.

Noun

virole (plural viroles)

  1. A 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
    • 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

Forms of virole

pluralviroles

Origin of virole

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

Words formed from virole

Questions about virole

What does virole mean?
Virole means a ring surrounding a bugle or hunting horn.
What part of speech is virole?
Virole is a noun.
What is the plural of virole?
The plural of virole is viroles.

Words near virole in the dictionary

  1. virokine
  2. virokines
  3. virokinetic
  4. virokinetics
  5. Virolahti
  6. virole
  7. viroled
  8. viroles
  9. virologic
  10. virological
  11. virologically

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