Round metal plate attached to various armor pieces as decoration or extra protection.
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.
1His swordpoint scraped a rondel, and Dunk, overextended, almost lost his seat.
2The rondeau-rondeau redoublé-the rondel-the roundel-the rondelet-the roundelay-the triolet and the kyrielle
3The rondel sends the senses reeling And who are we to call it dead?
4This rondel, too-how light it is, and graceful!-
5The moon-and-falcon rondel over Ser Vardis's right arm was sheared clean in half, hanging by its strap.
6Both men dropped some big hints suggesting we'll soon see a hybrid with a rondel on the bonnet.
7But in the rondel he has put himself before all competitors by a happy knack and a prevailing distinction of manner.
8If Frédet was too long away from Court, a rondel went to upbraid him; and it was in a rondel that Frédet would excuse himself.
9Bronn was on him in a heartbeat, kicking what was left of his shattered rondel aside to expose the weak spot between arm and breastplate.
10The 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:
11Now young Rondel in this Precipice of his has done some splendid work.
12Rondel, bewildered as one who had lived through a fairy-tale, sank into his chair.
13The chief of these were the Ballade and Chant Royal, the Rondel, Roudeau, Triolet, Virelay.
14To this neither Rondel nor Henderson had an answer.
15Rondel could see that Annette meant what she said.
16These rondels have no special meaning, being purely decorative.