Roundel vs Rondel - What's the difference?
roundel | rondel | Alternative forms |
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:
* Sung all the roundel lustily. — Chaucer
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:
(heraldiccharge) 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.
A bastion of a circular form.
A metric form of verse using two rhymes, usually fourteen 8- to 10-syllable lines in three stanzas, with the first lines of the first stanza returning as refrain of the next two.
A poem in the above form.
The verse form rondeau.
A poem in the above rondeau form.
A rondelle, (small) circular object.
A long thin medieval dagger with a circular guard and a circular pommel (hence the name).
A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion.
Rondel is a alternative form of roundel.
Rondel is a synonym of roundel.
As nouns the difference between roundel and rondel
is that roundel is anything having a round form; a round figure; a circle while rondel is a metric form of verse using two rhymes, usually fourteen 8- to 10-syllable lines in three stanzas, with the first lines of the first stanza returning as refrain of the next two.roundel
English
Noun
(en noun)- Come, now a roundel and a fairy song ... Fairies sing.
- 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.
