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A version of the London Underground roundel (sense 1) used on Transport for London trains.
 
The roundel (sense 5) of the Royal Air Force is featured on all British military aircraft.

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Etymology

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From Middle English roundel, rundel, rondel, from Old French rondel (something round and flat), a diminutive of rond (round). More at round.

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Noun

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roundel (plural roundels)

  1. Anything having a round form; a round figure; a circle.
    • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 93:
      The Overground has been given a seat at the Underground table. It has the roundel, the Johnston typeface, and it is on the Tube map.
  2. (music) A roundelay or rondelay.
  3. A small circular shield, sometimes not more than a foot in diameter, used by soldiers in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
  4. (heraldry) A circular spot; a charge in the form of a small coloured circle.
  5. (aviation) A circular insignia painted on an aircraft to identify its nationality or service.
    Synonym: cockade
  6. A bastion of a circular form.

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metals main colours less common colours
tincture or argent gules azure sable vert purpure tenné orange sanguine
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roundel (in parentheses: semé):  
bezant (bezanty)
 
plate (platy)
 
torteau (tortelly)
 
hurt (hurty)
 
pellet (pellety), ogress
 
pomme

 
golpe (golpy)
 
orange (semé of oranges)
 
guze (semé of guzes)
goutte (noun) / gutty (adj) thereof:  
(goutte / gutty) d'or (of gold)
 
d'eau (of water)
 
de sang (of blood)
 
de larmes (of tears)
 
de poix

(of pitch)
 
d'huile / d'olive (olive oil)
 



special roundel furs additional, uncommon tinctures:
tincture fountain, syke: barry wavy argent and azure ermine ermines, counter-ermine erminois pean vair counter-vair potent counter-potent bleu celeste, brunâtre, carnation, cendrée (iron, steel, acier), copper, murrey
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