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noun

Roundel n.

(Mus.) A rondelay. "Sung all the roundel lustily." "Come, now a roundel and a fairy song."

Anything having a round form; a round figure; a circle. "The Spaniards, casting themselves into roundels,... made a flying march to Calais." 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.

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Etymology of 'Roundel'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Roundel" Quotes from Famous Books

... the imaginative mind is apt to suppose itself prepared for any mortal accident. Prison, among other ills, was one that had been often faced by the undaunted Arethusa. Even as he went down the stairs, he was telling himself that here was a famous occasion for a roundel, and that like the committed linnets of the tuneful cavalier, he too would make his prison musical. I will tell the truth at once: the roundel was never written, or it should be printed in this place, to raise a smile. Two reasons interfered: the first moral, ...

— Across The Plains • Robert Louis Stevenson

... on the tops of three of the staves present a very curious puzzle; one roundel bears those of Neville and Montagu quarterly, and seems to be a reproduction of the arms of the Chancellor of 1455, George Neville, the Archbishop of York; another bears the old Plantagenet 'England ...

— The Oxford Degree Ceremony • Joseph Wells

Words linked to "Roundel" : suit of armour, armour plate, suit of armor, bearing, body armour, heraldry, body armor, armor plate, heraldic bearing, armor plating, rondel, plate armour, annulet, cataphract