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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun With disks, roundels. or rosettes: used in works on decorative art in describing objects so ornamented: as, “an amphora with handles a rotelle” (Birch), that is, having handles which, rising above the lip of the vase, form a circular ornament, often filled with a mask.

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