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Roundel vs Rosette - What's the difference?

roundel | rosette |

As nouns the difference between roundel and rosette

is that roundel is anything having a round form; a round figure; a circle while rosette is an imitation of a rose by means of ribbon or other material, used especially as an ornament or a badge.

roundel

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • * 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:
  • 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.
  • (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.
  • rosette

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An imitation of a rose by means of ribbon or other material, used especially as an ornament or a badge.
  • (architecture) An ornament in the form of a rose or roundel, much used in decoration.
  • A red color.
  • A rose burner.
  • (botany) One or more whorls of leaves, clustered tightly at the base of a plant.
  • (botany) A plant growth form in which the plant grows outward in all directions for a short distance, producing a small round shape.
  • (zoology) Any structure having a flowerlike form; especially, the group of five broad ambulacra on the upper side of the spatangoid and clypeastroid sea urchins.
  • (zoology) A flowerlike color marking, as on the leopard.
  • A floral pattern in (latte art).
  • (medicine) A clustered formation of tumor cells.
  • Synonyms

    * (red color) roset * (latte art) rosetta

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