roundel
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A version of the London Underground roundel used on Transport for London trains.
English
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Etymology
From Middle English roundel, rundel, rondel, from Old French rondel (“something round and flat”), a diminutive of rond (“round”). More at round.
Pronunciation
Noun
roundel (plural roundels)
- Anything having a round form; a round figure; a circle.
- 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 93:
- The Overground has been given a seat at the Underground table. It has the roundel, the Johnston typeface, and it is on the Tube map.
- (music) A roundelay or rondelay.
- c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , line 1:
- Come, now a roundel and a fairy song ... Fairies sing.
- 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:
- (heraldry) 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.
- Synonym: cockade
- A bastion of a circular form.
Translations
anything having a round form
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music: a roundelay or rondelay
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a small circular shield, sometimes not more than a foot in diameter
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heraldry: 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
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| roundel (in parentheses: semé): |  bezant (bezanty) |
 plate (platy) |
 torteau (tortelly) |
 hurt (hurty) |
 pellet (pellety), ogress |
 pomme |
 golpe (golpy) |
 orange (semé of oranges) |
 guze (semé of guzes) | |
| goutte (noun) / gutty (adj) thereof: |  (goutte / gutty) d'or (of gold) |
 d'eau (of water) |
 de sang (of blood) |
 de larmes (of tears) |
 de poix (of pitch) |
 d'huile / d'olive (olive oil) |
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| tincture | fountain, syke: barry wavy argent and azure | ermine | ermines, counter-ermine | erminois | pean | vair | counter-vair | potent | counter-potent | bleu celeste, brunâtre, carnation, cendrée (iron, steel, acier), copper, murrey |
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