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rouncival|ˈraʊnsɪvəl|
Forms: α. 6 rownseual, rounceuall, -vall, 7 rounse-, 7–9 rounceval; 6 rounsefal, 7 rouncefall. β. 6–7 rounsiual (7 -val), 7–8 rouncival (7 -ual(l, -vall); 7 rownsifall, rouncifold. γ. 6 runciual(l, 7 -vale, runsivill. δ. 8 ronce-, roncival.
[Perhaps from the place-name Roncesvalles (Roncevaux), as stated by Blount (see quot. 1674 in sense 1), but there appears to be no outside confirmation of this, and the development of the later senses is obscure. In sense 4 there is prob. association with rounce (see prec.) and fall n.]
1. Used attrib. as the specific designation of a large variety of garden or field pea.
1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 78 Set (as a daintie) thy runciuall pease. Ibid. 95 Runciuall pease set in winter. 1654in F. L. Hawks Hist. N. Carolina (1858) II. 19 There was one Indian had two beads of gold in his ears, big as rounceval peas. 1674Blount Glossogr. (ed. 4), Rounceval Peas, a sort of great Peas, well known, and took name from Ronceval, a place at the foot of the Pyrenean Mountains, from whence they first came to us. 1725Fam. Dict. s.v. July ⁋43 Ronceval Pease, Garden Beans, and French Beans. 1742Jarvis Don Quix. ii. iii. vi, Each grain would have been the size of a good Ronceval-pea. 1856Morton Cycl. Agric. II. 575/2 Gray Rouncival, Giant, or Dutch Pea.—This is the latest of the field varieties.
b. ellipt. Also pl., peas of this variety.
1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 51 But rather sowe otes, or else bullimong there, gray peason, or runciuals, fitches, or tere. Ibid. 87 Sowe runciuals timelie, and all that be gray. 1622Drayton Poly-olb. xx. 46 The Rouncefall, great Beans, and early-ripening Peason. 1660Sharrock Vegetables 14 Rounsevals, if sowed never so early, will scarce come before the latter part of the month of June. 1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) I. 138 In Staffordshire they sow Garden-Rouncivals in the Fields. 1786Abercrombie Gard. Assist. Feb. 32 Also marrowfats to succeed the above, and rouncivals, or other larger kinds. 1824Loudon Encycl. Gard. 618 The egg, the moratto, the Prussian blue, and the rouncivals..are all very fine eating peas. 1856Morton Cycl. Agric. II. 577 White Rouncival..[with seeds] large, irregularly shaped, and white.
†c. transf. A wart. Obs.—1
1656Mennis & Smith Musarum Deliciæ (ed. 2) 12 Cicero, (that wrote in Prose) So call'd, from Rouncival on's Nose.
†2.
a. attrib. Gigantic, huge; robustious. Obs.
1582Stanyhurst æneis iii. (Arb.) 92 Then runs from mountayns and woods thee rownseual helswarme Of Cyclopan lurdens. 1602Dekker Satirom. Wks. 1873 I. 243 Dost roare? th' ast a good rouncivall voice to cry Lanthorne and Candle-light. 1668Wilkins Real Char. ii. i. 33 Crassitude, gross, deep, incrassate, rouncival.
†b. A monster. Obs.—1
1641A. Scott Journ. in Misc. Sc. Hist. Soc. (1904) 278 So for a curious glover straite he calls To flea the rownsifall, and stuffs his hyde.
†3. A woman of large build and boisterous or loose manners. Obs.
1596Nashe Saffron Walden Wks. (Grosart) III. 52 It was so fulsome a fat Bonarobe and terrible Rounceuall. 1611Heywood Golden Age ii. i, I am not yet of that giant size but I may pass for a bona roba, a rounceval, a virago, or a good manly lass. 1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iii. ii. 72 The reaking, sweaty Rouncifolds of Py-Corner.
†4.
a. A heavy fall, a crash. Obs.—1
1582Stanyhurst æneis ii. (Arb.) 63 Then the tre deepe minced... At leingth with rounsefal, from stock vntruncked, yt harssheth.
†b. A form of alliterative verse. Obs.—1
1585Jas. I Ess. Poesie (Arb.) 68 For flyting, or Inuectiues, vse this kynde of verse following, callit Rouncefallis, or Tumbling verse. |