zule

See also: zulë and żule

English

Etymology

From Dutch zuil(en) (“pillar(s)”).

Noun

zule (plural zules)

(heraldry) One of the three stylized pillars (often considered chess rooks) in the canting arms of Frederick Nassau de Zuylestein.
- 1724, John Guillim, A Display of Heraldry, page 117:
  Those of Zulestein, are Gules, three Zules, Or.
- 1847, Henry Gough, A Glossary of Terms Used in British Heraldry: With a Chronological Table, Illustrative of Its Rise and Progress, page 330:
  ZULE : a chess rook : so called in the coat of ZULEISTEIN (gules, three zules argent, a label of three points of the last,) borne on an escutcheon surtout by the earls of Rochford.
- 1914, Joint Publishing Committee Representing the London County Council and the London Survey Committee, Survey of London:
  FREDERICK NASSAU DE ZUYLESTEIN, EARL OF ROCHFORD Quarterly, [...] over all, in an escutcheon Gules three zules Argent, two and one, for Zuylestein.

Anagrams

ULEZ

Romanian

Noun

zule f (plural zule)

obsolete form of zulie

Declension

Declension of **zule**
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
	singular			plural
nominative-accusative	zule	zulea		zule	zulele
genitive-dative	zule	zulei		zule	zulelor
vocative	zule, zuleo			zulelor

References

zule in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN