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GURGES Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of GURGES is a heraldic charge consisting of a spiral made up of two narrow bands argent and azure and conventionally representing a whirlpool.
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gurges - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
en:Heraldic charges · English non-lemma forms · English noun forms · Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European · Latin 2-syllable words · Latin terms with ...
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Gurges - Mistholme
A gurges is the heraldic representation of a whirlpool, by which name it is sometimes blazoned. It is found in the canting arms of Gorges, c.1255.
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gurges
gurges (ˈgɜːdʒiːz) Also 7 gorges, 9 dial. gurgise. [a. L. gurges whirlpool.] A whirlpool, gulf; dial. a pool, pond.1664 Cotton Scarron. i. 19 Here a Boat kicking on the Surges, And there one sinking in a Gurges. 1668 Phil. Trans. III. 633 There may be a very Low Ebb, though no High-Spring, which the...
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Gurges - Etymology, Origin & Meaning
Originating from Latin gurges meaning "whirlpool," this word derives from PIE *gwrg- and *gwora-, signifying a heraldic spiral and concepts of food or ...
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GURGE Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
plural · a whirlpool. · Also called whirlpool. Heraldry., Also a charge covering the entire field of an escutcheon and having the form either of a spirallike ...
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Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges
Marcus Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges may refer to::
Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges (consul 292 BC), Roman consul in 292 and 276 BC
Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges (consul 265 BC), son of the previous, Roman consul in 265 BC
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Gurges - Traceable Heraldic Art
Concentric annulets. May also be blazoned a gurges, as this was an early way of depicting whirlpools. Source: Insignia Florentinorum. Artist unknown. (Arms ...
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gurges - Middle English Compendium - University of Michigan
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses). 1. A whirlpool. Show 1 Quotation Hide 1 Quotation. Associated quotations.
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Gurges - DrawShield
Gurges, or Whirlpool: as the gurges(like the fountain) represents water, argent and azure are its proper tinctures. Instances, however, occur in which other ...
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GURGE Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
1. of 2 intransitive verb ˈgərj -ed/-ing/-s : surge, swirl gurge 2 of 2 noun plural -s : a turbulent fountain : surge, eddy
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Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges (consul 265 BC)
, in 292, supports the hypothesis that he was Gurges' grandson, rather than his son. This Fabius would have been the son of Gurges, and had his public career cut short by his own indiscretion.
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gurge
▪ I. gurge, n. rare. (gɜːdʒ) Also gorge. [ad. L. gurges abyss, whirlpool.] A whirlpool (lit. and fig.); Her. = gurges b.1667 Milton P.L. xii. 41 The Plain, wherein a black bituminous gurge Boiles out from under ground, the mouth of Hell. 1730–6 Bailey (folio), Gurge, a Whirl-Pool. 1820 Keats Hyperio...
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Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges (consul 292 BC)
Maximus Gurges, the son of Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus, was consul in 292, 276, and 265 BC. Beloch and Degrassi holds that Verrucosus was the grandson of Gurges, consul in 292 and 276, and that his father, also named Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges
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gurgitive
† gurgitive, a. Obs. rare—0. [irregularly f. L. gurgit-, gurges whirlpool.] ‘Belonging to a Gulph or stream’ (Blount Glossogr. 1656).
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