Definitions for roundel

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roundel roun·del

Spelling: [roun-dl]

IPA: /ˈraʊn dl/

Roundel is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 192 anagrams from letters in roundel (delnoru).

Definitions for roundel

noun

1. something round or circular.
2. a small, round pane or window.
3. a decorative plate, panel, tablet, or the like, round in form.
4. Also, rondel. Theater. a round piece of colored gelatin or glass placed over stage lights as a color medium to obtain lighting effects.
5. Armor. a metal disk that protects the armpit. a metal disk on a hafted weapon or a dagger to protect the hand.
6. Heraldry. a small circular charge.
7. Prosody. a rondel or rondeau. a modification of the rondeau, consisting of nine lines with two refrains.
8. a round dance.

Origin of roundel

1250-1300; Middle English roundele, rundel(le) Old French rondel, derivative of rond round¹ (adj.)

Examples for roundel

He pipeth, weary wretch and worn, A roundel shrill and obsolete.

I will tell the truth at once: the roundel was never written, or it should be printed in this place, to raise a smile.

This is the "roundel" sung by the birds "to do Nature honour and plesaunce."

The great man leaned against the brickwork of the roundel, and swung his arms abroad.

While the cereal was boiling and the kettle singing, she gathered a bouquet of flowers from a roundel on the front lawn.

The one certain example is the roundel included in the Parl.

The fountain is a roundel charged with waves of white and blue.

roundel, rown′del, n. anything of a round form or figure: a circle: a ring-dance, a rondel.

He had, however, brought with him a few loaves and a roundel of wine, which he had received at a certain monastery.

Term applied to the well-known carving of the roundel common in the Ionic style.