Definition of Roundlets

1. Noun. (plural of roundlet) ¹

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Definition of Roundlets

1. roundlet [n] - See also: roundlet

Lexicographical Neighbors of Roundlets

roundhouses
roundhousing
rounding
rounding down
rounding error
rounding off
rounding out
rounding up
roundings
roundish
roundishly
roundishness
roundle
roundles
roundlet
roundlets (current term)
roundly
roundness
roundnesses
roundoff
roundpole fence
roundridge
rounds
rounds down
rounds of applause
rounds of applauses
rounds off
rounds out
rounds up
roundsman

Literary usage of Roundlets

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Manual of Heraldry, Being a Concise Description of Several Terms Used by Francis James Grant (1904)
"Six roundlets; three, two, one, in pile. There are seldom more figures than seven, ... If the field was strewed all over with roundlets, this would be ..."

2. The Siege of Carlaverock in the Xxviii: Edward I. A.D. MCCC; with the Arms by Nicholas Harris Nicolas (1828)
"... good Hugh de Courtenay, of fine gold with three red roundlets and a blue label. ... of gold and black fretty, on a chief three roundlets, also of gold. ..."

3. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1900)
"These latter are very similar to the small idols or fetishes of the African and Polynesian natives ; while the roundlets of human skulls and the small ..."

4. Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archeological Society by James Simpson, Richard Saul Ferguson, William Gershom Collingwood (1897)
"The same cross and lettering, but with three roundlets as intervening stop, are found in the following inscription on the second bell at Dacre : + JOHANNES ..."

5. Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archeological Society by James Simpson, Richard Saul Ferguson, William Gershom Collingwood (1874)
"The roundlets or round spots on a shield arose probably from the metal heads of the nails used to hold its component boards together. ..."

6. An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great by John Woody Papworth (1874)
"3 LOZENGES betw. or within .... coni. Mullets Arg. three lozenges in fess betw. as many mallets of eight points pierced az. FELL. roundlets .... three ..."

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