rondelle

[ ron-del ]

noun

1. a small disk of glass used as an ornament in a stained-glass window.
2. Jewelry. a flat bead, often of rock crystal or onyx, used in a necklace as a spacer between contrasting stones.

Word History and Origins

Origin of rondelle¹

From French, dating back to 1830–40; rondel

Example Sentences

While you ponder, please don’t ask why in French a puck is called “rondelle”; in Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian “shaiba”; in Finnish “kiekko”; in Swedish “pucken”; in Norwegian, Danish and German “puck”; in Latvian “ripa”; in both Czech and Slovak “puk”; and in Hungarian “korong.”

From New York Times

Rondelle, ron-del′, n. anything round: one of the successive crusts formed on molten metal when cooling, a rosette.—n.

From Project Gutenberg

Sometimes a breastplate glitters bright, A morion speeds its flashes wroth, A rondelle from a hand of might Drops heavily upon the cloth.

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Rondelle, n�gociant en vin, Porte St. Bernard, fauxbourg St. Germain, Paris, buys three hundred pieces of the first quality every year.

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The illustrious wine shop of "Eve's Apple" was situated in the University, at the corner of the Rue de la Rondelle and the Rue de la B�tonnier.

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