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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ROUND'EL,
ROUND'ELAY,
ROUND'ER, n. [See Rondure.] Circumference; inclosure. [Not in use.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: English form of rondeau having three triplets with a refrain after the first and third
2: round piece of armor plate that protects the armpit
3: (heraldry) a charge in the shape of a circle; "a hollow roundel" [syn: annulet, roundel]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French rondel, roundel, from rund round — more at round Date: 14th century 1. a round figure or object (as a circular panel, window, or niche) 2. a. rondel 2a b. an English modified rondeau

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a small disc, esp. a decorative medallion. 2 a circular identifying mark painted on military aircraft, esp. the red, white, and blue of the RAF. 3 a poem of eleven lines in three stanzas. Etymology: ME f. OF rondel(le) (as ROUND)

Webster's 1913 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.] 1. (Mus.) 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) 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(roundels) A roundel is a circular design, for example one painted on a military aircraft. N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, O, Petrarchan sonnet, Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, alba, anacreontic, annular muscle, annulus, areola, aureole, balada, ballad, ballade, bucolic, canso, chanson, chaplet, circle, circuit, circumference, circus, clerihew, closed circle, corona, coronet, crown, cycle, diadem, dirge, discus, disk, dithyramb, eclogue, elegy, epic, epigram, epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos, eternal return, fairy ring, garland, georgic, ghazel, glory, haiku, halo, idyll, jingle, lasso, limerick, logical circle, loop, looplet, lyric, madrigal, magic circle, monody, narrative poem, noose, nursery rhyme, ode, orbit, palinode, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela, pastourelle, poem, prothalamium, radius, rhyme, ring, rondeau, rondel, rondelle, round, roundelay, satire, saucer, sestina, sloka, song, sonnet, sonnet sequence, sphincter, tanka, tenso, tenzone, threnody, triolet, troubadour poem, verse, verselet, versicle, vicious circle, villanelle, virelay, wheel, wreath