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‖ rondache
(rɒnˈdæʃ, ‖ rɔ̃daʃ)
Also 7 ro(u)ndass.
[F. rondache, † rondace (hence Du. rondas), f. rond round a.]
1. A small circular shield or buckler.
1604E. G[rimstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies vi. xxvi. 487 For defensive armes they had little rondaches or targets. 1623Hexham Tongue-combat 43 The Targets or Round⁓asses which some of these Gens-gallants did beare. 1672Dryden Assignation ii. i, Haunting her Street by Night, with Guittars, Dark-Lanthorns, and Rondaches.
1837Lockhart Scott (1839) VI. 351 This shield..being a round rondache, or highland target. 1897Daily News 1 Feb. 6/2 A circular rondache of bright steel.
†2. transf. A foot-soldier. Obs.
1629S'hertogenbosh 38 We..tooke in some Workes from the Enemies, and brought into the towne 2 Rondasses. 1646Howell Lewis XIII, 122 He offer'd with his rondaches, and by an assault Seaward, to carry the Town. |