Word Meanings - ROUNDEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Additional info about word: ROUNDEL

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 small circular shield, sometimes not more than a foot in diameter, used by soldiers in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. A circular spot; a sharge in the form of a small circle. A bastion of a circular form. (more info) dim. fr. rond; for sense 2, cf. F. rondelle a round, a round shield.

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