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Meanings of rondel in English

Spanish
rondel

Round metal plate attached to various armor pieces as decoration or extra protection.

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        A French verse form of 10 or 13 lines running on two rhymes; the opening phrase is repeated as the refrain of the second and third stanzas.

              rondell
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              Examples for "roundel"
              Examples for "roundel"
              1
              The officer's skinsuit also displays the Grayson roundel on the left shoulder.
              House of Steel
              2
              He might as well have stuck a target roundel on his back.
              Aspho Fields
              3
              The rondeau-rondeau redoublé-the rondel-the roundel-the rondelet-the roundelay-the triolet and the kyrielle
              The ode less travelled: unlocking the poet within
              4
              Then she flattened it into a thick roundel and popped it in the oven.
              The Guardian
              5
              So moves the device whence, round as a pearl or tear, A roundel is wrought.
              The ode less travelled: unlocking the poet within
              Usage of rondel in English
              1
              His swordpoint scraped a rondel, and Dunk, overextended, almost lost his seat.
              A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
              2
              The rondeau-rondeau redoublé-the rondel-the roundel-the rondelet-the roundelay-the triolet and the kyrielle
              The ode less travelled: unlocking the poet within
              3
              The rondel sends the senses reeling And who are we to call it dead?
              The ode less travelled: unlocking the poet within
              4
              This rondel, too-how light it is, and graceful!-
              Reviews
              5
              The moon-and-falcon rondel over Ser Vardis's right arm was sheared clean in half, hanging by its strap.
              A Game of Thrones
              6
              Both men dropped some big hints suggesting we'll soon see a hybrid with a rondel on the bonnet.
              Wired
              7
              But in the rondel he has put himself before all competitors by a happy knack and a prevailing distinction of manner.
              Familiar Studies of Men and Books
              8
              If Frédet was too long away from Court, a rondel went to upbraid him; and it was in a rondel that Frédet would excuse himself.
              Familiar Studies of Men and Books
              9
              Bronn was on him in a heartbeat, kicking what was left of his shattered rondel aside to expose the weak spot between arm and breastplate.
              A Game of Thrones
              10
              The Variétés?-Don'tyou know the old rondel?-Theone you hummed when you were sick, you know?-Itseems to me that I can hear it yet:
              His Excellency the Minister
              11
              Now young Rondel in this Precipice of his has done some splendid work.
              Fortitude
              12
              Rondel, bewildered as one who had lived through a fairy-tale, sank into his chair.
              Prose Fancies
              13
              The chief of these were the Ballade and Chant Royal, the Rondel, Roudeau, Triolet, Virelay.
              Song and Legend from the Middle Ages
              14
              To this neither Rondel nor Henderson had an answer.
              Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross
              15
              Rondel could see that Annette meant what she said.
              Prose Fancies
              16
              These rondels have no special meaning, being purely decorative.
              Palaces and Courts of the Exposition / A Handbook of the Archite...
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              Rondel through the time