rouelle
nounEtymology Borrowed from French rouelle.
1
History, Human sciences, Sciences A wheel-like amulet of the ancient Gauls, intended to symbolize the sun.
3
History, Human sciences, Sciences A round badge that Jews were legally obligated to wear in public.
- Louis IX. of France compelled every Jew, man, woman, and child, to wear a “rouelle,” or wheel of conspicuously-coloured stuff on the breast and back of the dress, that the Hebrew might be known at a distance.1870, John Henry Blunt, editor, Dictionary of Doctrinal and Historical Theology, London, Oxford, and Cambridge: Rivingtons, page 378: