'Roundel' definitions:
Definition of 'roundel'
From: WordNet
noun
English form of rondeau having three triplets with a refrain after the first and third
noun
Round piece of armor plate that protects the armpit
noun
(heraldry) a charge in the shape of a circle; "a hollow roundel" [syn: annulet, roundel]
Definition of 'Roundel'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Come, now a roundel and a fairy song. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Anything having a round form; a round figure; a circle. [1913 Webster]
- The Spaniards, casting themselves into roundels, . . . made a flying march to Calais. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'roundel'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- English sonnet,
- epic,
- epigram,
- epithalamium,
- epode,
- epopee,
- epopoeia,
- epos,
- eternal return,
- fairy ring,
- garland,
- georgic,
- ghazel,
- glory,
- haiku,
- halo,
- Horatian ode,
- idyll,
- Italian sonnet,
- jingle,
- lasso,
- limerick,
- logical circle,
- loop,
- looplet,
- lyric,
- madrigal,
- magic circle,
- monody,
- narrative poem,
- noose,
- nursery rhyme,
- O,
- ode,
- orbit,
- palinode,
- pastoral,
- pastoral elegy,
- pastorela,
- pastourelle,
- Petrarchan sonnet,
- Pindaric ode,
- poem,
- prothalamium,
- radius,
- rhyme,
- ring,
- rondeau,
- rondel,
- rondelle,
- round,
- roundelay,
- Sapphic ode,
- satire,
- saucer,
- sestina,
- Shakespearean sonnet,
- sloka,
- song,
- sonnet,
- sonnet sequence,
- sphincter,
- tanka,
- tenso,
- tenzone,
- threnody,
- triolet,
- troubadour poem,
- verse,
- verselet,
- versicle,
- vicious circle,
- villanelle,
- virelay,
- wheel,
- wreath