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noun

Roundel n.

(Mus.) A rondelay. "Sung all the roundel lustily." "Come, now a roundel and a fairy song."

Anything having a round form; a round figure; a circle. "The Spaniards, casting themselves into roundels,... made a flying march to Calais." 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.

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Etymology of 'Roundel'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Roundel" Quotes from Famous Books

... takes the form of a "cursing roundel," a form once employed by Callimachus, who may have inherited it from the East. It calls down heaven's wrath upon the confiscated lands in language as bitter as ever Mt. Ebal heard: fire and flood over the crops, blight upon the fruit, and pestilence ...

— Vergil - A Biography • Tenney Frank

... learned as a conveyancer: but it was all of no use: "He penned a stanza when he should engross:" however, I ate my terms and was duly called to the Bar. At Walters' my most eminent colleague, amongst others, was Roundel Palmer, now Lord Selborne, who, some time after, when we both had chambers in the Inn, wanted me (but I repudiated the idea) to be proposed as a candidate member for Oxford University, just before Gladstone was induced to stand; I daresay he will remember ...

— My Life as an Author • Martin Farquhar Tupper