Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A little circle.
- noun A small circular object.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A little circle; a roundel.
- noun Same as
rundlet . - noun In heraldry, same as
roundel . - noun plural The fuller rounded part of the hood worn as a head-dress in the middle ages. See
hood .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A little circle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
disk , circle or other round object.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English, from Old French rondelet, diminutive of rondel, roundel; see roundel.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Middle English roundelet, from Middle French rondelet, a diminutive of rondel ("small circle").
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Examples
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Mexicans, Peruvians, and of every other ancient people commemorated in history, in either hemisphere, and is formed very similarly to our letter T, with a roundlet, or oval, placed immediately above it.
Atlantis : the antediluvian world Ignatius Donnelly 1866
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