roundel

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It bears the BNP roundel, and is handmade by skilled British craftsmen.

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  1. noun A curved form, especially a semicircular panel, window, or recess.
  2. noun A rondel.
  3. noun A rondeau.

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  • The Dirae takes the form of a “cursing roundel,” a form once employed by Callimachus, who may have inherited it from the East. —  Vergil
  • During the War he commanded San Sebastiano's tiny air force with its cabbage-rose roundel, operating from an airfield just behind the lines where Ganelon's regiment saw action. —  EQMM,December2006
  • Because the Big 3 is NOT the action button - the subtley convex roundel to the right of the Big 3 is the action button - yes, that stainless steel thing the same colour as the brushed stainless steel background. —  Andrea's Buzzing About:
  • The accompanying roundel (lapel pin) denotes the length of ethical and diligent service.
  • A Royal Air Force museum spokesman said: 'The Spitfire in the poster can be identified as belonging to 303 Squadron of the Polish Air Force by the code letters' RF 'painted in front of the RAF roundel. —  Home | Mail Online
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  1. Middle English, from Old French rondel, diminutive of rond, circle, round; see round1.

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  1. Also roundle, rondel, rondle, rundle, in obsolete, technical, or dialectal uses; from Middle English roundel, rundel, rondel, from Old French rondel, later rondeau, anything round and flat, a round plate, a round cake, etc., a scroll, diminutive of rond, round: see round. Cf. Spanish redondilla = Portuguese redondilha, a roundel: see redondilla. Cf. rondeau, rondel.
 

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