zule
nounEtymology From Dutch zuil(en) (“pillar(s)”).
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Government, Heraldry, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Monarchy, Nobility, Politics One of the three stylized pillars (often considered chess rooks) in the canting arms of Frederick Nassau de Zuylestein.
- Those of Zulestein, are Gules, three Zules, Or.1724, John Guillim, A Display of Heraldry, page 117:
- 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.1847, Henry Gough, A Glossary of Terms Used in British Heraldry: With a Chronological Table, Illustrative of Its Rise and Progress, page 330:
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- FREDERICK NASSAU DE ZUYLESTEIN, EARL OF ROCHFORD Quarterly, [...] over all, in an escutcheon Gules three zules Argent, two and one, for Zuylestein.1914, Joint Publishing Committee Representing the London County Council and the London Survey Committee, Survey of London: