Rounde vs Roundel - What's the difference?
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* The works of the Ettrick shepherd by (James Hogg)
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.
As an adverb rounde
is .As a noun roundel is
anything having a round form; a round figure; a circle.rounde
English
Adverb
(-)- And rounde''' and '''rounde''', and faster '''rounde /The fairye ryng theye flewe/And aye the langer that theye daunsit/The madder on fonne theye grewe.
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.