roundel /ˈɹaʊn.dəl/ noun7 •Anything having a round form; a round figure; a circle.the London Underground roundel •A circular spot; a charge in the form of a small coloured circle. •A circular insignia painted on an aircraft to identify its nationality or service. •A roundelay or rondelay.Come, now a roundel and a fairy song ... Fairies sing. — 1595 •A bastion of a circular form. •A small circular shield, sometimes not more than a foot in diameter, used by soldiers in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. •(India, no longer used) An umbrella.[…] a Roundel-boy; whose business, is, to walk by his master, and defend him with his Roundel or Umbrella from the heat of the sun. — 1773 formsroundels