roundel
something round or circular.
a small, round pane or window.
a decorative plate, panel, tablet, or the like, round in form.
Also rondel. Theater. a round piece of colored gelatin or glass placed over stage lights as a color medium to obtain lighting effects.
Armor.
a metal disk that protects the armpit.
a metal disk on a hafted weapon or a dagger to protect the hand.
Heraldry. a small circular charge.
Prosody.
a rondel or rondeau.
a modification of the rondeau, consisting of nine lines with two refrains.
a round dance.
Origin of roundel
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How to use roundel in a sentence
The device upon the shield was three roundels in chief and the crest, an arm holding a hammer.
The Doomsman | Van Tassel SutphenThe beautiful Roundels entitled Merciless Beauty answer the test surprisingly ( 4).
Chaucer's Works, Volume 6 (of 7) -- Introduction, Glossary, and Indexes | Geoffrey ChaucerSome day perhaps they will be content with metrical exercises, ballades, and roundels.
Res Judicat | Augustine BirrellThe supporters are the lion and the dragon, indicating that these roundels are of the time of Queen Elizabeth.
Nooks and Corners of English Life, Past and Present | John TimbsIt is in brown leather; blind-tooled except for some gold and coloured roundels in different parts of the device.
The Story of Books | Gertrude Burford Rawlings
British Dictionary definitions for roundel
/ (ˈraʊndəl) /
a form of rondeau consisting of three stanzas each of three lines with a refrain after the first and the third
a circular identifying mark in national colours on military aircraft
a small ornamental circular window, panel, medallion, plate, disc, etc
a round plate of armour used to protect the armpit
heraldry a charge in the shape of a circle
another word for roundelay (def. 1)
Origin of roundel
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