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roundel
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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(Mus.) A rondelay. ``Sung all the roundel lustily.''
--Chaucer.Come, now a roundel and a fairy song.
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Anything having a round form; a round figure; a circle. The Spaniards, casting themselves into roundels, . . . made a flying march to Calais. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] Specifically:
A small circular shield, sometimes not more than a foot in diameter, used by soldiers in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
(Her.) A circular spot; a sharge in the form of a small circle.
(Fort.) A bastion of a circular form.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 13c., "a circle," from Old French rondel "round dance; dance lyric; roundel," from rond "round" (see round (n.)).
Wiktionary
n. 1 Anything having a round form; a round figure; a circle. 2 (context music English) A roundelay or rondelay. 3 A small circular shield, sometimes not more than a foot in diameter, used by soldiers in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. 4 (context heraldiccharge English) A circular spot; a charge in the form of a small coloured circle. 5 (context aviation English) a circular insignia painted on an aircraft to identify its nationality or service. 6 A bastion of a circular form.
WordNet
n. English form of rondeau having three triplets with a refrain after the first and third
round piece of armor plate that protects the armpit
a charge in the shape of a circle; a hollow roundel [syn: annulet]
Wikipedia
General meanings of Roundel include:
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Roundel, a circular symbol
- used in heraldry: Roundel (heraldry)
- used on military aircraft as a sign of nationality: Military aircraft insignia
- Roundel enclosure, a neolithic monument type: Neolithic circular enclosures in Central Europe
- Roundel (fortification), a type of circular artillery tower
- A painting, created in a round format
- Roundel (poetry), a form of verse in English language poetry
- London Underground Roundel, the logo for transport in London
- Royal Air Force roundels, identification marks used by the British Airforces
- Roundel (magazine), a monthly periodical from the BMW Car Club of America
- "Roundel: The little eyes that never knew Light", a song by Sir Edward Elgar to a verse by A. C. Swinburne
''' Roundel ''' is a monthly periodical that serves as the newsletter of the BMW Car Club of America. Their mission is to inform, entertain, and promote a sense of community for their 75,000 members. They review new cars as well as perform comparison tests. There is a classified ads section which has a large selection of BMWs.
The headquarters of Roundel is in Greenville, South Carolina. The magazine presumably takes its name from the fact that the BMW logo is a roundel.
A roundel is a circular charge in heraldry. Roundels are among the oldest charges used in coats of arms, dating from the start of the age of heraldry in Europe, circa 1200-1215.
The roundel is a strong artillery fortification with a rounded or circular plan of a similar height to the adjacent defensive walls. If the fortification is clearly higher than the walls it is called a battery tower.
A roundel (not to be confused with the rondel) is a form of verse used in English language poetry devised by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909). It is the Anglo-Norman form corresponding to the French rondeau. It makes use of refrains, repeated according to a certain stylized pattern. A roundel consists of nine lines each having the same number of syllables, plus a refrain after the third line and after the last line. The refrain must be identical with the beginning of the first line: it may be a half-line, and rhymes with the second line. It has three stanzas and its rhyme scheme is as follows: A B A R ; B A B ; A B A R ; where R is the refrain.
Swinburne had published a book A Century of Roundels. He dedicated these poems to his friend Christina Rossetti, who then started writing roundels herself, as evidenced by the following examples from her anthology of poetry: Wife to Husband; A Better Resurrection; A Life's Parallels; Today for me; It is finished; From Metastasio.
Usage examples of "roundel".
Morian listened silently, already armed and ready, the roundels and martlet on his green surcoat gleaming in the early morning light.
The Persian hacked at him overhand with an axe, and his shield splintered into fragments as the blade bit through the roundel.
At least some of these changes involved Donatello, who was commissioned to decorate the sacristy with a complex program that included painted stucco reliefs in the eight circular roundels and a set of bronze doors with two large archlike reliefs above them.
And many a hymne for your holydays, That highte ballads, roundels, virelays.
They entered through a porch screened off by doors so cunningly carved in a pattern of intertwined roundels that those within could look out upon any courtiers who waited beyond, hoping for admittance.
Centipede lovingly polished the horse roundels of mother-of-pearl inlay on the copper-and-gold-flecked lacquered ground of the scabbard.
Mirage jet came up out of the east and flashed silvery sleek across our nose, and as it passed with incredible speed I saw the Air Force roundels and the goggled face of the pilot staring at us.
It carried Zimbabwe Air Force roundels, and incongruously the pilot was a white man, but there was a black man in the right-hand seat, and he wore the dreaded burgundy-red beret and silver cap-badge.
Now it was in the cool of the evening two days after the Battle on the Ridge, that the men, both freemen and thralls, had been disporting themselves in the plain ground without the Burg in casting the spear and putting the stone, and running races a-foot and ahorseback, and now close on sunset three young men, two of the Laxings and one of the Shieldings, and a grey old thrall of that same House, were shooting a match with the bow, driving their shafts at a rushen roundel hung on a pole which the old thrall had dight.
One, who wears a crown and bears a branch of agnus castus in her hand, begins a roundel, in honour of the Leaf, which all the others take up, dancing and singing in the meadow before the arbour.
On the hatch's inner surface, safe from reentry friction and corrosive atmospheres, were the painted blazons of her co-owners: the pearl roundel of Governor Halys, and the bright orange banderol—the oriflamme—of Councilor Frederic Duneen.
He seyde he lovede, and was biloved no thyng, Of swich matere made he manye layes, Songes, compleintes, roundels, virelayes, How that he dorste nat his sorwe telle, But langwissheth, as a furye dooth in helle, And dye he moste, he seyde, as dide Ekko For Narcisus, that dorste nat telle hir wo, In oother manere than ye heere me seye, Ne dorste he nat to hir his wo biwreye, Save that paraventure som tyme at daunces, Ther yonge folk kepen hir observaunces, It may wel be he looked on hir face, In swich a wise as man that asketh grace.
Whan that Arcite hadde romed al his fille And songen al the roundel lustily, Into a studie he fil al sodeynly, As doon thise loveres in hir queynte geres, Now in the croppe, now doun in the breres, Now up, now doun as boket in a welle.
On the hatch's inner surface, safe from reentry friction and corrosive atmospheres, were the painted blazons of her co-owners: the pearl roundel of Governor Halys, and the bright orange banderol—.
True, the adrenalin was sufficient only to forestall such things rather than to invigorate him, but he was grateful, as he ducked his head through the crew door near the tail fin and directly adjacent to the huge RAF roundel on the fuselage.