A circle or diadem. (Italian, rigolo, a little wheel.)
“[Sleep] That from this golden rigol hath divorced
So many English kings.”
Shakespeare: 2 Henry IV., iv. 4.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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