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

  • 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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