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roundel

 

  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Roundel  \Roun"del\,  n.  [OF.  rondel  a  roundelay,  F.  rondel, 
  rondeau,  a  dim.  fr  rond;  for  sense  2,  cf  F.  rondelle  a 
  round,  a  round  shield.  See  {Round},  a.,  and  cf  {Rondel}, 
  {Rondelay}.] 
  1.  (Mus.)  A  rondelay.  ``Sung  all  the  roundel  lustily.'' 
  --Chaucer. 
 
  Come  now  a  roundel  and  a  fairy  song.  --Shak. 
 
  2.  Anything  having  a  round  form  a  round  figure;  a  circle. 
 
  The  Spaniards,  casting  themselves  into  roundels,  .  . 
  .  made  a  flying  march  to  Calais.  --Bacon. 
  Specifically: 
  a  A  small  circular  shield,  sometimes  not  more  than  a 
  foot  in  diameter,  used  by  soldiers  in  the  fourteenth 
  and  fifteenth  centuries. 
  b  (Her.)  A  circular  spot;  a  sharge  in  the  form  of  a 
  small  circle. 
  c  (Fort.)  A  bastion  of  a  circular  form 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  roundel 
  n  1:  English  form  of  rondeau  having  three  triplets  with  a  refrain 
  after  the  first  and  third 
  2:  round  piece  that  protects  armpit 
  3:  a  charge  in  the  shape  of  a  circle;  a  hollow  roundel  [syn:  {annulet}]




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