Definitions for roundels

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roundels roun·del

Spelling: [roun-dl]

IPA: /ˈraʊn dl/

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

You can make 393 anagrams from letters in roundels (delnorsu).

Definitions for roundels

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 roundels

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

Examples for roundels

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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