roundel
Americannoun
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something round or circular.
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a small, round pane or window.
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a decorative plate, panel, tablet, or the like, round in form.
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Theater. Also a round piece of colored gelatin or glass placed over stage lights as a color medium to obtain lighting effects.
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Armor.
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a metal disk that protects the armpit.
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a metal disk on a hafted weapon or a dagger to protect the hand.
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Heraldry. a small circular charge.
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Prosody.
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a rondel or rondeau.
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a modification of the rondeau, consisting of nine lines with two refrains.
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a round dance.
noun
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a form of rondeau consisting of three stanzas each of three lines with a refrain after the first and the third
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a circular identifying mark in national colours on military aircraft
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a small ornamental circular window, panel, medallion, plate, disc, etc
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a round plate of armour used to protect the armpit
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heraldry a charge in the shape of a circle
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another word for roundelay
Etymology
Origin of roundel
1250–1300; Middle English roundele, rundel ( le ) < Old French rondel, derivative of rond round 1 (adj.)
Example Sentences
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The London Overground - and its distinctive orange and blue roundel - started running in 2007.
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2024
Among the show’s principal series are a few deviations: pictures with multiple soft-edged rings, and another whose central roundel is overlapped by another, off-kilter one.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2023
And now the Met has accomplished what it could not in 2003, using money from Draper and others to buy the roundel for $23 million from a gallery in Britain.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2022
The right side of the helmets and the shoulders of the jerseys display the roundel.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 10, 2021
Ho—ho for the dance!—and the phantoms outsprung In skeleton roundel advancing, The rich and the poor, and the old and the young, But the winding-sheets hinder'd their dancing.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various
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