单词 | rondel |
释义 | rondeln. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.c1300 |
随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。