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Definition of Roundels
1. roundel [n] - See also: roundel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Roundels
Literary usage of Roundels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bayeux Tapestry: A History and Description by Frank Rede Fowke (1898)
"... between four roundels, is a near approach to a positive heraldic bearing.
roundels (boules) were afterwards the allusive arms of the counts of Boulogne. ..."
2. A Manual of Costume as Illustrated by Monumental Brasses by Herbert Druitt (1906)
"... collar of SS. ; roundels at shoulders ; diagonal sword-belt. The COMPLETE
PLATE period, beginning under Henry IV., lasted during the reign of Henry V. ..."
3. The Antiquarian (1871)
"in a suil of plate armour, with a sharply pointed basinet, roundels at the ...
The roundels aie, perhaps, the most distinctive mark, and, from this and ..."
4. Lyra Bicyclica: Sixty Poets on the Wheel by Joseph Grinnell Dalton (1885)
"roundels, AFTER SWINBURNE. I. VOICE OF WHEEL. BICYCLE is wrought as a ring of
the starry sphere, With craft of the light, but the winning of sound unsought, ..."
5. Heraldry for Craftsmen & Designers by William Henry St. John Hope (1913)
"THE SHIELD AND ITS TREATMENT (continued) Armorial Bearings of Ladies; Use of
Lozenges and roundels as variant forms of Shields; Arms of Men on Lozenges; ..."
6. Heraldry for Craftsmen & Designers by William Henry St. John Hope (1913)
"THE SHIELD AND ITS TREATMENT (continued) Armorial Bearings of Ladies; Use of
Lozenges and roundels as variant forms of Shields; Arms of Men on Lozenges; ..."
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