Roundel vs Rondelet - What's the difference?
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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.
Rondelet is a related term of roundel.
As nouns the difference between roundel and rondelet
is that roundel is anything having a round form; a round figure; a circle while rondelet is 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.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.
