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Roundel   Listen
noun
Roundel  n.  
1.
(Mus.) A rondelay. "Sung all the roundel lustily." "Come, now a roundel and a fairy song."
2.
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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Words linked to "Roundel" :   bearing, charge, heraldic bearing, armorial bearing, rondeau, armor plating, body armor, cataphract, suit of armor, armour plate, coat of mail, annulet, rondel, body armour, heraldry


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