English form of rondeau having three triplets with a refrain after the first and third
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round piece of armor plate that protects the armpit
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(heraldry) a charge in the shape of a circle
<noun.artifact> a hollow roundel
Roundel \Roun"del\, n. [OF. rondel a roundelay, F. rondel, rondeau, a dim. fr. rond; for sense 2, cf. F. rondelle a round, a round shield. See {Round}, a., and cf. {Rondel}, {Rondelay}.] 1. (Mus.) A rondelay. ``Sung all the roundel lustily.'' --Chaucer.
Come, now a roundel and a fairy song. --Shak.
2. Anything having a round form; a round figure; a circle.
The Spaniards, casting themselves into roundels, . . . made a flying march to Calais. --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) (Her.) A circular spot; a sharge in the form of a small circle. (c) (Fort.) A bastion of a circular form.
The face it presents to the world is Blancpain's usual discreet roundel.
The designers responded with a G like a fragment of the London Transport roundel and British public services colours that French visitors will have seen here. There is an ironic twist in both these cases.