01 n. A rondelay.
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A rondelay.(Mus.)“Come, now a roundel and a fairy song.” — Shak.
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Anything having a round form; a round figure; a circle.“The Spaniards, casting themselves into roundels, . . . made a flying march to Calais.” — Bacon.
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A small circular shield, sometimes not more than a foot in diameter, used by soldiers in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.(Her.)