roundel

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: roun=del

CIDE DICTIONARY

roundel, n. [OF. rondel a roundelay, F. rondel, rondeau, a dim. fr. rond; for sense 2, cf. F. rondelle a round, a round shield. See Round, a., and cf. Rondel, Rondelay.].

•  A rondelay.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]

  "Come, now a roundel and a fairy song."  [1913 Webster]
•  Anything having a round form; a round figure; a circle.  [1913 Webster]

  "The Spaniards, casting themselves into roundels, . . . made a flying march to Calais."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

roundel, n.
1 a small disc, esp. a decorative medallion.
2 a circular identifying mark painted on military aircraft, esp. the red, white, and blue of the RAF.
3 a poem of eleven lines in three stanzas.

Etymology

ME f. OF rondel(le) (as ROUND)

THESAURUS

roundel

English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, O, Petrarchan sonnet, Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, alba, anacreontic, annular muscle, annulus, areola, aureole, balada, ballad, ballade, bucolic, canso, chanson, chaplet, circle, circuit, circumference, circus, clerihew, closed circle, corona, coronet, crown, cycle, diadem, dirge, discus, disk, dithyramb, eclogue, elegy, epic, epigram, epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos, eternal return, fairy ring, garland, georgic, ghazel, glory, haiku, halo, idyll, jingle, lasso, limerick, logical circle, loop, looplet, lyric, madrigal, magic circle, monody, narrative poem, noose, nursery rhyme, ode, orbit, palinode, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela, pastourelle, poem, prothalamium, radius, rhyme, ring, rondeau, rondel, rondelle, round, roundelay, satire, saucer, sestina, sloka, song, sonnet, sonnet sequence, sphincter, tanka, tenso, tenzone, threnody, triolet, troubadour poem, verse, verselet, versicle, vicious circle, villanelle, virelay, wheel, wreath