different between roundel vs rondelet
roundel
English
Alternative forms
- roundle (archaic)
Etymology
From Middle English roundel, rundel, rondel, from Old French rondel (“something round and flat”), a diminutive of rond (“round”). More at round.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??a?n.d?l/
Noun
roundel (plural roundels)
- Anything having a round form; a round figure; a circle.
- (music) A roundelay or rondelay.
- 1595, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II, Scene II, line 1:
- Come, now a roundel and a fairy song ... Fairies sing.
- songen al the roundel lustily.
- 1595, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II, Scene II, line 1:
- A small circular shield, sometimes not more than a foot in diameter, used by soldiers in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
- 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 26:
- The roundel or rondache derived its name from its circular figure, it was made of oziers boards of light wood, sinews or ropes, covered with leather, plates of metal, or stuck full of nails in concentric circles or other figures.
- 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 26:
- (heraldry) A circular spot; a charge in the form of a small coloured circle.
- (aviation) a circular insignia painted on an aircraft to identify its nationality or service.
- Synonym: cockade
- A bastion of a circular form.
Translations
Anagrams
- lounder, roundle, ruled on
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rondelet
English
Etymology
Middle French rondelet
Noun
rondelet (plural rondelets)
- A metric verse (form), modeled after the rondeau, in two rhymes over seven lines, the first (in four syllables) being repeated as third and refrain (final one), each other line having eight syllables
Related terms
- rondel, rondelle
- roundel
- roundelay
Anagrams
- Del Norte, redolent
French
Etymology
From rondel +? -et. Rondel has become rondeau in Modern French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???.dl?/
Adjective
rondelet (feminine singular rondelette, masculine plural rondelets, feminine plural rondelettes)
- quite round; roundish
- (by extension) large, hefty, significant
Further reading
- “rondelet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle French
Etymology
rondel +? -et
Noun
rondelet m (plural rondelez)
- A roundelay, certain metric verse from
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