different between roundel vs rondelet

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)

1. Anything having a round form; a round figure; a circle.
2. (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.

3. 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.

4. (heraldry) A circular spot; a charge in the form of a small coloured circle.
5. (aviation) a circular insignia painted on an aircraft to identify its nationality or service.

   Synonym: cockade

6. A bastion of a circular form.

Translations

Anagrams

• lounder, roundle, ruled on

English

Etymology

Middle French rondelet

Noun

rondelet (plural rondelets)

1. 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)

1. quite round; roundish
2. (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)

1. A roundelay, certain metric verse from