rondel

nounC2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechToo rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Other forms: rondels

A rondel is a small round plate of armour or a round shield. A rondel at the shoulder.

It covered the gap at a joint where plate could not overlap. A rondel dagger is named from the round discs at each end of the grip.

Definitions of rondel

1nounrondelA small round plate of armour or a round shield.C2
“The rondel at the armpit was the only thing covering the gap.”

rondel is armour.

Where it comes from

Old French rondel is a diminutive of ront, round, from Latin rotundus.

Latin
rotundus — round, circular; spherical
Old French
rondel
Middle English
roundel
English, today
rondel

Built from

reont · Old French — round (in shape)
rota · Latin — wheel

From Middle English roundel, from Old French rondel, a diminutive of ronde, the feminine of ront, reont (“round (in shape)”), from Latin rotundus (“round, circular; spherical”), related to rota (“wheel”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire

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rondel in the wild

Rondelet is the diminutive of rondel, a similar, longer verse form.
Rondelet
There were also forms of the ahlspiess which lacked a rondel guard and these were known as "breach pikes".
Ahlspiess
A rondel is a verse form originating in French lyrical poetry of the 14th century (closely related to the rondeau, as well as the rondelet).
Rondel (poem)
Besagews, also spelled besagues, are a type of rondel designed to protect the armpits, as part of a harness of plate armour.
Besagew
The rondel was also used in weapons as a handguard, in particular the rondel dagger but also in swords.
Rondel (armour)

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Related words

the rota family

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rondel — used too rare to measure · point at the bar for the others

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