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Definition of Roundlets
1. roundlet [n] - See also: roundlet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Roundlets
Literary usage of Roundlets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Manual of Heraldry, Being a Concise Description of Several Terms Used by Francis James Grant (1904)
"Six roundlets; three, two, one, in pile. There are seldom more figures than seven,
... If the field was strewed all over with roundlets, this would be ..."
2. The Siege of Carlaverock in the Xxviii: Edward I. A.D. MCCC; with the Arms by Nicholas Harris Nicolas (1828)
"... good Hugh de Courtenay, of fine gold with three red roundlets and a blue label.
... of gold and black fretty, on a chief three roundlets, also of gold. ..."
3. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1900)
"These latter are very similar to the small idols or fetishes of the African and
Polynesian natives ; while the roundlets of human skulls and the small ..."
4. Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archeological Society by James Simpson, Richard Saul Ferguson, William Gershom Collingwood (1897)
"The same cross and lettering, but with three roundlets as intervening stop, are
found in the following inscription on the second bell at Dacre : + JOHANNES ..."
5. Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archeological Society by James Simpson, Richard Saul Ferguson, William Gershom Collingwood (1874)
"The roundlets or round spots on a shield arose probably from the metal heads of
the nails used to hold its component boards together. ..."
6. An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great by John Woody Papworth (1874)
"3 LOZENGES betw. or within .... coni. Mullets Arg. three lozenges in fess betw.
as many mallets of eight points pierced az. FELL. Roundlets .... three ..."
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