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roundel
[ roun-dl ]
noun
- something round or circular.
- a small, round pane or window.
- a decorative plate, panel, tablet, or the like, round in form.
- 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.
roundel
/ ˈraʊndəl /
noun
- 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
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of roundel1
Example Sentences
One passenger told the BBC when the train came into the station "I noticed that Westminster station looked unusual and as the train slowed, I noticed the roundels said Charing Cross and not Westminster".
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.
The most recent canvases extrapolate from smaller painting-drawings in which some of the roundels are outlined in graphite, and other pencil strokes jut among the circular forms.
It unfolds in a lively if unsettling roundel of debates.
There’s nothing wrong with the roundel on Dylan’s forehead, of course, nor with the other circles that the designer Martin Sharp used to depict the musician’s hair.
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