α. 1500s roundache, 1600s– rondache.
β. 1600s rondass, 1600s roundass.
单词 | rondache |
释义 | rondachen.α. 1500s roundache, 1600s– rondache. β. 1600s rondass, 1600s roundass. 1. A small circular shield, a target (target n.1 1). Cf. roundel n. 5a. Now historical.The term is principally used in early use to describe French armoury; later antiquaries and collectors have applied the term (without historical justification) to any large round shield, and particularly to large iron parade-shields decorated with embossed scenes popular during the 16th and 17th centuries. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > shield > [noun] > small bucklera1300 rondelc1300 targeta1400 roundel1538 rundle1562 rondache1591 pelta1600 pelt1617 1591 A. Colynet True Hist. Ciuill Warres France v. 292 Put on your carnall armour, (for the spirituall armour you haue lost long agoe) let your Myter serue you for an Helmet,..your Crosier staues for Launces, your red roundaches which the Cardinalls doo weare vpon their heads, for Targets. 1596 tr. Deligtful Hist. Celestina vii. 57 The prince..hit him such a gash vnder his roundache, with his full force, that peircing his harnesse cleane thorow, he cut his flesh to the bone. 1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies vi. xxvi. 487 For defensive armes they had little rondaches or targets [Sp. Para defenderse, vsauan rodelas pequeñas y escudos]. 1623 H. Hexham Tongue-combat 43 The Targets or Roundasses which some of these Gens-gallants did beare. 1673 J. Dryden Assignation ii. i. 9 Haunting her street by night, with Guittars, dark Lanthorns, and Rondaches. 1786 F. Grose Treat. Anc. Armour 24 The shields used by our Norman ancestors were the triangular or heater shield, the target or buckler, the roundel or rondache, and the pavais, pavache, or tallevas. 1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (1839) VI. 351 This shield..being a round rondache, or highland target. 1897 Daily News 1 Feb. 6/2 A circular rondache of bright steel. 1925 Bull. Metrop. Mus. Art 20 290/2 Among beautiful arms, embossed rondaches have ever played an envied rôle. 1995 I. Maclean tr. J. Potocki Manuscript found in Saragossa (1996) 531 He was dressed in a buff coat with his sword in his hand, grasping his rondache, which a squire was presenting to him. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by branch of army > [noun] > foot-soldier footmanc1325 page?a1400 pieton?1473 foot soldier1587 rondache1607 peon1609 tolpatch1705 foot wobbler1785 wobbler1785 doughboy1835 fantassin1835 mud-crusher1864 web foot1866 grabby1868 infantryman1883 flat-foot1889 gravel-crusher1889 foot-slogger1894 PBI1916 mud-slogger1936 infanteer1944 leg1969 1607 E. Grimeston tr. Gen. Inuentorie Hist. France ii. 656 Two hundred rondaches [Fr. rondaches] and coselets passe by their bridge of wood, and the Cannon playing without intermission, seemed to keepe the beseeged from their defence. 1629 tr. S. Pelegromius Descr. S'hertogenbosh 38 We..tooke in some Workes from the Enemies, and brought into the towne 2 Rondasses. 1646 J. Howell Lustra Ludovici 122 He offer'd with his rondaches, and by an assault Seaward, to carry the Town. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1591 |
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