(n.) A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion.
(n.) Same as Rondeau.
(n.) Specifically, a particular form of rondeau containing fourteen lines in two rhymes, the refrain being a repetition of the first and second lines as the seventh and eighth, and again as the thirteenth and fourteenth.
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Roundel
Definition:
(a.) A rondelay.
(a.) Anything having a round form; a round figure; a circle.
(a.) A small circular shield, sometimes not more than a foot in diameter, used by soldiers in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
(a.) A circular spot; a sharge in the form of a small circle.
(a.) A bastion of a circular form.
Example Sentences:
(1) Just as the Roman legions carried their eagle and Christian missionaries had the cross, so the TfL roundel will be raised proudly in parts of the suburban rail network that never saw it before.
(2) Lights started to come on behind the gammariya, the roundel windows of stained glass, casting jewelled shadows on the ground below.
(3) Roundell is a former head of Impressionist and Modern Pictures at Christie’s, whose sales of masterpieces have included Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, which broke the then record for a work of art when it sold in 1987 for nearly £25m.
(4) "This is a painting that has everything," says James Roundell of Dickinson, the dealer that will handle the sale for an anonymous private collector.
(5) This included the Korean name of the DPRK written in a stylised Hangul font and a new logo on the tail, featuring a roundel like that of the KPA Air Force – albeit with different proportions – flanked by a blue, stylised bird-of-prey .
(6) Research into Le Moulin d’Alphonse was conducted by James Roundell and Simon Dickinson, British art dealers, in collaboration with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
(7) The system that we propose comprises continuous circular capsulorhexis (Neuhann and Gimbel), hydrodelamination (Brint), roundel phacoemulsification (Hara and Hara), new IOL designs, and intraoperative extensive lens epithelial cell removal.