rouelle

plural rouelles

1. countablehistoryA wheel-like amulet of the ancient Gauls, intended to symbolize the sun.
2. cookingsteak (especially of veal, cut across the leg)
3. countablehistoryA 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