roundel

Noun

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Noun (3)

  1. English form of rondeau having three triplets with a refrain after the first and thirdType of rondeau, rondel
  2. round piece of armor plate that protects the armpitType of armor plate, armour platePart of body armor, plate armor
  3. (heraldry) a charge in the shape of a filled circle“a hollow roundel”Type of charge, bearing
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Roun′del noun

Origin: OF. rondel a roundelay, F. rondel, rondeau, a dim. fr. rond; for sense 2, cf. F. rondelle a round, a round shield. See Round, adjective, and cf. Rondel, Rondelay.

1. Music A rondelay. “Sung all the roundel lustily.” Geoffrey Chaucer

Come, now a roundel and a fairy song.— William Shakespeare

2. Anything having a round form; a round figure; a circle.

The Spaniards, casting themselves into roundels,... made a flying march to Calais.— Francis, Baron Verulam 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) Heraldry A circular spot; a sharge in the form of a small circle. (c) Fortification A bastion of a circular form.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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