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单词 rondel
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rondeln.

Brit. /ˈrɒndl/, U.S. /ˈrɑndəl/, /ˌrɑnˈdɛl/
Forms: Middle English rondeal, Middle English rondelle, Middle English– rondel, late Middle English–1600s rondell, 1600s–1800s 2000s– rondle; also Scottish pre-1700 rondal, pre-1700 rondall, pre-1700 rondle.
Origin: Probably a borrowing from French. Etymons: French rondel, rondele.
Etymology: Probably partly < Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French rondel, masculine (Middle French, French rondeau : see roundel n.), and partly < Old French, Middle French rondele , feminine (French rondelle : see roundel n.); the word is thus a doublet of roundel n. (and of rundle n.1), and also of later rondeau n., rondelle n.
1.
a. A circular object or shape; a circle; a circular piece of something.spec. (a) the midriff (obsolete); (b) a round shield (cf. roundel n. 5a) (obsolete).The precise sense in quot. 1631 is not clear.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > [noun] > middle of trunk or waist
middleeOE
mideOE
girdlec1275
rondelc1300
girdlesteadc1330
waistc1386
belt steadc1540
girding-place1601
midriff1823
beltline1892
midsection1956
society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > shield > [noun] > small
bucklera1300
rondelc1300
targeta1400
roundel1538
rundle1562
rondache1591
pelta1600
pelt1617
the world > space > shape > curvature > roundness > [noun] > circularity > a circle
rondelc1300
roundelc1300
circlec1305
compass1340
rondelet1385
cerne1393
burrc1440
orba1460
O1492
O1531
circular1575
rotundo1614
rhomb1656
circumference1667
c1300 St. Michael (Laud) l. 452 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 312 (MED) Man may bi þe Mone i-seo, þe ȝwyle heo is neowe riȝt, A luyte rondel ase a sikel.
1325 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer 165/1 m.4 Item, eidem pro ij Rondeles de ferro ad ignem iacendum [read iaciendum], iiij d.
1486 Bk. St. Albans e viij In the mydref that callid is the rondell also.
1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes ii, in Wks. 188/2 The ayre striken wt the breth of the spiker, & equally rolling forth in rondels to the eares of the hearers.
1593 Queen Elizabeth I tr. Boethius De Consolatione Philosophiæ in Queen Elizabeth's Englishings (1899) 113 Hast thou not thus wrapt a rondell [L. orbem] of dyvine sinceritie?
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 654 They giue a jirke, as if a twig bended into a rondle were sodainly let go.
1631 B. Jonson New Inne i. vi. 5 Chalke, and renew the rondels. I am, now Resolu'd to stay.
1780 Entick's New Spelling Dict. (new ed.) 319/2 Rondle, a round mass.
1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems xvii. 26 As some mule [leaves] in a glutinous sludge her rondel of iron.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1970/1 Rondle (Metal-working),..the crust or scale which forms upon the surface of molten metal in cooling, and which is removed..as it congeals.
1936 H. T. Lowe-Porter tr. T. Mann Death in Venice & Other Stories 222 Paths are laid out in curves and rondels.
1972 Trans. Oriental Ceramics Soc. 58 A grey earthenware jar and cover, with..scrolling..in triangles on the neck and in a rondel on the lid.
2005 Pittsburgh Tribune Rev. (Nexis) 9 July The Marlans added another room off the library.., with a skylight and leaded-glass windows with stained-glass rondles.
2007 M. D. Kellogg Friends in High Places (2008) xxiv. 115 Designed by Cartier in the late 1930s for an Italian movie star, it was a collar of diamond-set rondels.
b. A rung of a ladder. Cf. round n.1 13a, roundel n. 8. Obsolete.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > ladder > [noun] > rung or step
stepc1000
gangOE
stavec1175
tine?c1225
ladder stalea1250
degreec1290
rungc1300
staffc1325
stairc1400
ladder stavec1440
scalec1440
roundc1450
stakec1450
sprang1527
staver1534
rundle1565
rave1566
roundel1585
rondel1616
ladder rung1620
rowel1652
spokea1658
stower1674
stale1714
rim1788
tread1838
through1899
step iron1912
1616 T. Gainsford Rich Cabinet f. 134 Hee, that goes vp a ladder, but slippeth off the rondells.
1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) 25 Things..which..serve..to judicious beliefs as scales and rondles to mount the pinnacles..of Divinity. View more context for this quotation
1723 Briton No. 6 And make their Vices the only Rondels whereby they mount the Ladder of tow'ring Preferment.
c. Fortification. A round tower. Also in the names of such defensive structures. Cf. roundel n. 9.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > castle or fortified building > [noun] > tower or watch-tower
towerc897
bastillec1400
bastillion1525
cavalier1562
commander1572
torrion1572
mount1590
sentinel1600
sentry1611
cat1628
torne1637
rondel1686
rounder1774
Martello tower1803
1686 London Gaz. No. 2159/1 The Duke of Lorrain's Attack embraces three Rondels or Towers.
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Rondel, in Fortification, is a round Tower sometimes erected at the Foot of the Bastions.
1827 S. B. H. Judah Buccaneers II. iii. ii. 99 Light after light shot and flared through the darkness, as of a gathering multitude, along the rondels and about the bazaar.
1898 M. K. Van Rensselaer Goede Vrouw of Mana-ha-ta iv. 48 A tiny, crescent-shaped fort called a Rondel, which was part of the town's defence against invaders.
1923 N. O. Winter New Poland viii. 140 Just beyond is a circular brick fort known as the Rondel, which was doubtless rather formidable in its day.
2007 P. S. Juuti in P. S. Juuti et al. Environmental Hist. Water i. iv. 33 These round artillery towers, or rondels, were originally used as living quarters for the aristocracy.
2. A type of short poem of medieval French origin, related to the rondeau and the triolet and consisting typically of thirteen lines set in three stanzas with two rhymes; the verse form in which this is written; (more generally) = rondeau n. 1a. Cf. roundel n. 11, roundelay n. 1a.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > lyric poem > [noun] > lyric of fixed verse form > rondeau
rondela1393
roundela1393
rondeau1525
roundo1686
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. 2727 I have ofte assaied Rondeal, balade, and virelai..To make.
?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 1 (MED) Y made for her loue songges, balades, rondelles, viralles, and diuerse nwe thinges.
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies vi. xxviii. 492 They haue likewise put our compositions of musicke into their language, as Octaves, Songs, and Rondells.
1604 W. Fowler To Lady A. Steward in Wks. (1914) I. 318 Then must my trauail'd Muse but pipe like Pan, And Hobbinol her Rondleis with her Peers.
1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music at Roundelay Some writers speak of the Roundelay, or Rondel, as a kind of air appropriated to dancing.
1887 J. W. G. White Ballades & Rondeaus Introd. p. lviii In its origin the rondel was a lyric of two verses... With Charles d'Orléans the rondel took the distinct shape..of fourteen lines on two rhymes.
1887 J. W. G. White Ballades & Rondeaus Introd. p. lviii Nor are these rondel-triolets exceptions; they are quite common till the beginning of the fifteenth century.
1931 D. Byrne Rivers of Damascus 86 John Crane, the young Oxford poet, who wrote her ballads, rondels, and chants royaux.
2003 W. H. New Hist. Canad. Lit. (ed. 2) iii. 122 He used conventional forms—nearly half of his 168 poems are sonnets and rondels—but he played with language.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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